{"id":267,"date":"2016-02-17T20:02:49","date_gmt":"2016-02-18T01:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2016\/02\/17\/riley-institute-part-of-effort-to-create-two-new-innovative-high-schools-in-state\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T13:48:52","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T18:48:52","slug":"riley-institute-part-of-effort-to-create-two-new-innovative-high-schools-in-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/riley-institute-part-of-effort-to-create-two-new-innovative-high-schools-in-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Riley Institute part of effort to create two new innovative high schools in South Carolina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/riley-institute.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1313 lazyload\" title=\"riley-institute\" data-src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/riley-institute.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"252\" height=\"134\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 252px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 252\/134;\" \/><\/a>KnowledgeWorks, an education foundation based in Cincinnati, Ohio, is working with the Riley Institute at Furman and other organizations to create two new innovative high schools along the I-95 corridor in South Carolina through a $2.9 million Investing in Innovation (i3) grant.<\/p>\n<p>In November, KnowledgeWorks was selected as one of 23 grant finalists by the U.S. Department of Education.\u00a0 The proposed project involves the Clarendon 1 and Colleton County school districts, and would create two STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math)-focused New Tech High Schools along the I-95 corridor in South Carolina.<\/p>\n<p>Matt Williams, senior director of national advocacy and partnerships at KnowledgeWorks, wrote an op-ed about the project for <em>The State<\/em> newspaper in Columbia.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestate.com\/2011\/12\/14\/2079030\/williams-bringing-hope-to-the.html\">Read \u201cBringing hope to the Corridor of Shame\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/knowledgeworks.org\/press_room\/press_releases\/press_release\/12\/08\/2011\/knowledgeworks-riley-institute-poised-develop-i-0\">Read KnowledgeWorks new release<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KnowledgeWorks, an education foundation based in Cincinnati, Ohio, is working with the Riley Institute at Furman and other organizations to create two new innovative high schools along the I-95 corridor in South Carolina. \u00a0The project is being funded through a $2.9 million Investing in Innovation (i3) grant from the\u00a0U.S. Department of Education. \u00a0Matt Williams of KnowledgeWorks wrote an op-ed about the project for <em>The State<\/em> newspaper in Columbia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":268,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-centers-and-institutes","category-riley-institute"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}