FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: Gita Brown, 401-456-8465, gbrown@ric.edu
PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Rhode Island College senior Christopher Costa of East Providence, Rhode Island, has been awarded a $2,000 R.I. Council on Economic Education Scholarship. This scholarship is given annually to an undergraduate student majoring in secondary education/social studies or secondary education/history, who has excelled both in education courses and in economics courses.
Typically in high schools, economics is taught in the social studies or history departments. Costa’s focus is social studies. He will begin student teaching in social studies at Nathaniel Greene Middle School in January 2017.
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