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...
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...
Apr 14, 2015
School Superintendent Bolgen Vargas is now backtracking from a shocking email wherein a high level school official asked principals to find out which teachers were using their classrooms as ‘political soapboxes’ in instructing them and their parents about...
Feb 28, 2015
This was reported to us as having happened to a teacher from NH as far back as the late 1990s. The situation is not getting better. It’s very Orwellian and as if we live in a country where we must conform to government political bias or not have a job. If you...
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...
