How Governor Hassan and Common Core Sets Teachers Up For Failure

Teachers across the nation and in New Hampshire are being set up for failure.  How? The new Common Core initiative targets teachers as the cause for why schools are failing. Assuming that the problems lie with teachers (and we’d argue against that belief) one...

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...

The Patronizing of Parents and Teachers by the Concord Monitor Editor

(With permission to post on this web site) In reply to this: http://www.concordmonitor.com/home/13201820-95/editorial-myths-guiding-opposition-on-common-core Dear Editor: The recent Editorial by the Concord Monitor: Myths guiding opposition on Common Core, expresses...

How the Common Core Lost Teacher Support

Excerpt: The lying. Remember how supporters of the Core used to tell us all the time that these standards were written by teachers? All. The. Time. Do you know why they’ve stopped saying that? Because it’s not true, and at this point, most everybody knows...

AFT puts Sect. Arne Duncan on an “Improvement Plan”

The AFT put Duncan on a “Secretary of Education Improvement Plan.” If he doesn’t improve, having been treated fairly, asking him to resign. Don’t miss the comments from the rank and file teachers at the bottom....