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Ways to A’s has started! Our summer study-skills program for students who are joining The College Crusade this fall is packed with up-and-coming 6th graders from Providence, Pawtucket, Central Falls, and Woonsocket. Their coursework includes exercises in active listening, note taking, reading, and writing, memory improvement, test taking, learning styles, and time and classroom management.
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Hundreds of new sixth-grade Crusaders are learning how to take notes, study for tests, manage their homework time, and handle many other challenges of middle school that they will face in the fall. It’s all part of our annual Ways to A’s study-skills course, which got underway at the Community College of Rhode Island this [...]

We are thrilled to announce that Isamar Morales, a Crusader graduating from Hope High School this spring, received the prestigious Fibertech/Tech Collective Scholarship for 2010! Isamar was honored at the Tech Collective’s annual Tech Laureates Night, held at Rhodes on the Pawtuxet on June 3. Curtis Fox, regional sales manager for Fibertech Networks, congratulated Isamar [...]

Cruaders, it’s time to choose your books for summer reading and book reports! Here are some suggested books if you are entering 8th grade in the fall. Remember these are only a suggestion. You may read any book you would like as long as it is a chapter book, age appropriate, and one that you [...]

Crusaders, ready to get started on your summer reading and book reports? Here are some suggested books if you are entering 7th grade in the fall. Remember these are only a suggestion. You may read any book you would like as long as it is a chapter book, age appropriate, and one that you [...]

Crusaders, it’s a new year, and you have a lot to look forward to on Saturdays. Come to Johnson & Wales University Harborside Campus to see why!
Our 2010 Saturday Cru Club program is packed with interesting skill-building activities in writing, time management, learning styles, studying and test taking, and active listening. Visiting career speakers will [...]

Providence and Central Falls high school Crusaders participating in our Critical Thinking & Writing Workshop in Media Literacy are wrapping up their final projects this week. They spent all term studying approaches to product marketing and the media, developing unique product concepts, and writing marketing materials. This past Saturday, six of them got a chance [...]

Sharlene Burgos, Aljenis Candelier, and Jason Bourdier, eighth-grade Crusaders at Roger Williams Middle School, got celebrity treatment this month for earning distinction on their NECAP scores. On October 2, they were dropped off at their school in a limo, along with five other students who did well on the test this year! The school principal, [...]

What do you get when you put a lot of kids and a lot of books together in one place? A lot of reading, of course!
On October 3 we kicked off our new Adventures in Literacy program for sixth-grade Crusaders, which is held here at the Crusade office on Saturdays through May 2010. We use [...]

Brian Estrada was awarded the Laura Rendón Community Service Scholarship during the 2009 Youth Leadership Summit for GEAR UP participants hosted in San Francisco last month! The $1,000 scholarship is given on the basis of a written essay and the recipient’s contributions during the national summit. Only two scholarships were awarded. Congratulations, Brian!