Jan 9, 2015
Council of Chief State School Officers Beg Congress to Keep Mass Standardized Testing in place. NOW who is PART of the Council of Chief State School Officers from NH? That would be Commissioner Virginia Barry This is who Governor Hassan appointed as the Department...
Dec 19, 2014
Parents, teachers, and activists around New Hampshire have been warning about the new computer adaptive Common Core standardized assessments. The NH DOE signed on to Smarter Balanced before it was ever validated. (It still has NOT been validated as required by law)...
Dec 16, 2014
Here is an article about the PARCC in NJ and how parents are just starting to wake up about the nightmare that is Common Core aligned standardized testing. The last paragraph states that the districts are required to have 95% of the student population take the test...
Nov 11, 2014
Scott Marion makes his living off of the over testing of our children in public schools. His recent letter endorsing Gov. Hassan should come as no surprise since under her tenure, schools are becoming even more damaged by the over-testing with flawed assessments....
Nov 9, 2014
PARENTS ARE ENCOURAGE TO “REFUSE” THE SMARTER BALANCED ASSESSMENT!!See: http://nhfamiliesforeducation.org/content/parents-have-right-opt-out-or-refuse-allow-their-child-take-statewide-assessments-suchTesting Window for Spring 2015 Smarter Balanced...
Oct 31, 2014
Scott Mantie, Ph.D., Administrator – Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment, Smarter Balanced, NECAP, Alternative Assessments, NAEP, and Curriculum Frameworks, will give brief the Nashua Board of Education on the Smarter Balanced Assessment (SBA) in a special...
