(Providence, RI)--Rhode Island College is announcing the closure of the Henry Barnard School at the end of this academic year.RIC officials said yesterday the closure is for financial reasons.The college also said the educational model that the school was founded upon, as a laboratory school for RIC teaching candidates, is no-longer considered best practice in teacher education.Henry Barnard is described as the first laboratory school in Rhode Island and one of the first in the U.S.
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