Jan 9, 2015
Council of Chief State School Officers Beg Congress to Keep Mass Standardized Testing in place. NOW who is PART of the Council of Chief State School Officers from NH? That would be Commissioner Virginia Barry This is who Governor Hassan appointed as the Department...
Jan 6, 2015
Dumbing down Math and English wasn’t enough for Governor Hassan and the NH Board of Education. They are now on the verge of dumbing down the science education in our public schools too. Governor Hassan put together a Committee to advise her on STEM education....
Jan 6, 2015
This is an example of a math problem given to a 1st grader (7 year old) in the Pittsfield school district. This was sent by a mom who is frustrated by the math problems that are being assigned to the young children. This is an extremely challenging problem for a 1st...
Jan 5, 2015
Joy Pullman in The Federalist pulls no punches in her latest on Common Core and her list of who the players are, what they did, and how much they have benefitted monetarily. Ten Common Core Promoters Laughing All The Way To The Bank...
Jan 5, 2015
1.4.15 ANTI-COMMON CORE LOUIE GOHMERT TO RUN AGAINST JOHN BOEHNER FOR SPEAKER OF U. S. HOUSE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zCAMTZDmeE ACTION STEP: If you want Louie Gohmert to be the speaker of the U. S. House rather than John Boehner, please contact your...
Dec 30, 2014
The Department of Education has proposed a new rule that would link student’s test scores on standardized tests to new teachers’ performance and back to their teacher preparation programs – denying the schools funding if these teachers do not produce...
Dec 28, 2014
Hopefully, the Department will stop bullying the other school districts as well. The Department never held a single Public Hearing on the proposed Smarter Balanced Assessments. It’s not surprising that many school board members, principals and teachers are...
Dec 20, 2014
For those of you who have been wondering what happened to William Baer, the Gilford NH man who dared speak up to the school board regarding the pornographic material they were requiring his daughter to read in honors class, all charges have been dismissed. Read about...
Dec 19, 2014
Parents, teachers, and activists around New Hampshire have been warning about the new computer adaptive Common Core standardized assessments. The NH DOE signed on to Smarter Balanced before it was ever validated. (It still has NOT been validated as required by law)...
Dec 18, 2014
There is nothing wrong with learning about water shortages and how to mitigate them, if you are planning on becoming an engineer who deals with that sort of thing. But in middle school and high school, the UN influence is very clearly being promoted in Bedford: they...
