May 1, 2014
The Annenburg Institute, a grant recipient of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, resource for community organizing, and associated with ACORN, recently issued a press release below. Please read our comments in BOLD and ITALICIZED. We also encourage you to read...
Apr 30, 2014
If your child takes any statewide assessments at the local public school, you need to call your state senator to support this bill. FIND YOUR SENATOR HERE: http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/Senate/Senate_members.aspx Please call your state senators ASAP. The Senate...
Apr 30, 2014
Ah yes, many of the teachers in our working group have been the victims of this very tactic. We’ve seen it with the regionalists (Acting on the World Stage) and now we are recognizing its existence in the education world. Illinois taxpayer says school districts...
Apr 29, 2014
The story of Common Core and data mining begins as most stories do, with a huge, unmet need. Read more here… Six Things The Us Dept Of Education Did To Deprive Your Child Of Privacy
Apr 29, 2014
What School “Transformation” Really Means and Who is Helping it Along Without Knowing It You’ve seen the video about how we must not think of our children as the property of their parents? If not go here: Children are not “the property” of their...
Apr 29, 2014
Thank you Cathy Gorman for your persistence in this matter! Yes we do believe it was YOUR action that stopped this nonsense. Timberlane Survey Cancelled – Girard at Large
Apr 28, 2014
The grants database lists the purposes of each grant, many of which are like the following: “to support a development plan for the organization and to support its efforts to provide training and information to implement Common Core State Standards”. Read...
Apr 28, 2014
The Curriculum and Instruction Committee of Manchester School Board met UNOFFICIALLY last week with school administrators to discuss the elimination of LEVELING in middle and high school grades. Without a vote of the committee or the full Board, a pilot study will...
Apr 28, 2014
Girard at Large has the story of the Timberlane Schools and their refusal to comply with NH’s Right to Know Laws. Girard at Large Looks like this is over another survey ( Monitoring the Future ) that hopes to influence the students’ political...
Apr 28, 2014
All legislators [and of course the PUBLIC] are invited to a luncheon entitled “Children: the Bedrock of the Granite State,” sponsored by Spark NH, the Governor-appointed Early Childhood Advisory Council for the State of New Hampshire to be held on Wednesday, April...
