New Hampshire Education Reforms: A set up for failure?

This is a VERY informative article from the Manchester Union Leader on the new “Teacher Evaluations” being used in the Manchester School District. Please read through it then note the comments at the end of the article.  To read the FULL article, click on...

Olszta: Manchester Got The Floor, Not Superior Standards

As originally published at:   http://www.girardatlarge.com/2014/07/olszta-manchester-got-floor-superior-standards The district spent tens of thousands of dollars and students lost over two thousand classroom hours of instruction, while teachers worked behind closed...

UPDATE: Manchester Academic Standards, Common Core Lite?

MANCHESTER: In the Manchester’s dumbed down draft standards in ELA, there is no longer a reference to reading Shakespeare, 18th, 19th, and early 20th century American literature, or US founding documents in ELA (Gettysburg Address, Declaration of Independence)....