New England teachers in the country. Massachusetts and Rhode Island ranked eighth and ninth, respectively. New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont have cooperated in developing a New England Common Assessment Program test under the No Child Left Behind guidelines. These states can compare the resultant scores with each other. The Maine Learning Technology Initiative program supplies all students with Apple MacBook laptops. There are several academic journals and publishing companies in the region, including "The New England Journal of Medicine", Harvard University Press, and Yale University Press. Some of its institutions lead the open access alternative to conventional academic publication, including MIT,
1860 United States presidential election in Rhode Island 1860 United States presidential election in Rhode Island The 1860 United States presidential election in Rhode Island took place on November 2, 1860, as part of the 1860 United States presidential election. Voters chose four electors of the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. Rhode Island was won by Republican candidate Abraham Lincoln, who won by a margin of 22.74%. With 61.37% of the popular vote, Rhode Island would prove to be Lincoln's fifth strongest state in terms of popular vote percentage in the 1860 election after Vermont, Minnesota, Massachusetts and Maine. Like New Jersey, New York