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Autism on the Rise - How RIC is Changing the Outcomes

Rhode Island College Impact

RIC partners with Sherlock Center to create autism education certificate program

Segregation is Back in America’s Public Schools

On November 14, 1960, six-year-old Ruby Bridges integrated the William Frantz Public School. In retaliation, white parents withdrew their children and Bridges’s father was fired from his job. Ruby completed the first grade alone. Ruby’s walk to school the first day, escorted by U.S. Marshals, inspired the 1964 Norman Rockwell painting “The Problem We All Live With.”