Apr 23, 2014
The Manchester School District recently released the “draft” standards for Math and English. We asked Ze’ev Wurman to take a look and offer some feedback. Here are his initial thoughts afterquickly looking over the draft standards in Mathematics....
Apr 23, 2014
Rich Girard from Girard at Large calls for the resignation of the Superintendent based on his actions and disregard for the law and parental Right to Know Requests. Listen…
Apr 22, 2014
NH videographer Ed Comeau was featured in this Breitbart article. Writing at National Review Online, American Enterprise Institute’s Rick Hess and Mike McShane make the complaint that critics of Common Core have not come up with the next steps to “repeal and replace”...
Apr 22, 2014
The NH Legislature had no clue that they were opening Pandora’s box when they passed Senate Bill 48, last year. It barely mentioned “Competencies” or “Competency-based” instruction: V. Competency-based strategies provide flexibility in...
Apr 22, 2014
When you look back at New Math (ca. 1965) and Reform Math (ca. 1990), one of the most striking and persistent features was that parents could not understand the homework their children brought home. Mystified parents were trying to advise mystified children. The...
