Jan 16, 2017
We received a letter from a parent/teacher in New Hampshire. She asked that her name be removed. Parents are removing their kids from the public schools but it’s even more telling that this one is a teacher too. We hear from many parents and teachers and we...
Oct 22, 2015
Teachers have been stripped of their autonomy in the classroom over the years due to federal education reforms. From Goals 2000, to No Child Left Behind and now to Common Core, the federal reforms have slowly stripped teachers of their autonomy. The bureaucrats tell...
Oct 22, 2015
The New Hampshire Dept. of Education directed Superintendents across New Hampshire to withhold the data on the preliminary proficiency scores from the Smarter Balanced (Common Core) Assessment. Parents and school board members around the state began asking, who do the...
Oct 17, 2015
As we predicted, Common Core Standards would be used to turn students into political activists. Gone are the days of educating students in the core academic subjects and allowing them to think for themselves. Common Core is more about pushing kids to become political...
Sep 24, 2015
CALL TO ACTION: Please E-MAIL Rep. Judith Spang the following article Her e-mail address is: judith@kestrelnet.net Rep. Spang (D-Durham) continues to deny that standardized test scores will be used to evaluate teachers. As you can see from this article, there is...
Aug 31, 2015
We’ve said all along that Common Core was out to destroy public ed and the teaching profession. Many teachers know this but there are still those who think this reform is just about a set of standards. With the tyrannical approach to teacher evaluations from the...
