Feb 18, 2015
This is a recent e-mail sent to parents in Exeter, NH. Notice that the common theme in these form letters is that you are supposed to get excited that you were “chosen” to give the Government all kinds of personal information on your child and your...
Feb 9, 2015
This won’t surprise anyone who has had experience in the public schools in the last 10 years or so. It is a revealing anecdotal story among many we hear weekly. From a parent: “My daughter just took the ACT exam for college entrance over the weekend. She...
Feb 8, 2015
ARE LOCAL BOARDS OUT OF CONTROL? MORE REASON TO GET INVOLVED You may have heard about the incident at a Gilford School Board meeting where a parent, William Baer, was arrested for speaking out about questionable material his daughter had been required to read. He was...
Feb 8, 2015
Charlotte Iserbyt and Anita Hoge, two of the most stunning educational researchers of all time, tell the story of how and why our educational system has fallen to the levels it has, to talk show host Jeff Rense. If the above video does not appear on your device, use...
Feb 7, 2015
The Smarter Balanced Assessment that schools are poised to give this spring has no external validity or reliability. “In laymen terms this means that the test developers have no corroborating outside confirmation to prove that their test questions measure what...
