{"id":1452,"date":"2015-03-09T15:23:44","date_gmt":"2015-03-09T19:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/?p=1452"},"modified":"2015-03-09T17:59:21","modified_gmt":"2015-03-09T21:59:21","slug":"nh-doe-stunning-admission-on-the-smarter-balanced-assessment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/2015\/03\/09\/nh-doe-stunning-admission-on-the-smarter-balanced-assessment\/","title":{"rendered":"NH DOE : STUNNING ADMISSION on the Smarter Balanced Assessment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NH DoE Deputy Commissioner Paul Leather states that &#8220;<strong><em>The state system is required by federal law [to administer Smarter Balanced Assessments] but [these assessments] may NOT help us improve teaching and learning<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0(Excerpt from\u00a0http:\/\/www.governor.nh.gov\/media\/news\/2015\/pr-2015-03-05-pace.htm)<\/p>\n<p>The Deputy Commissioner just acknowledged that the statewide assessment &#8220;MAY NOT HELP \u00a0IMPROVE TEACHING AND LEARNING.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So why waste the time on Smarter Balanced testing?<\/p>\n<p>ANSWER: For the federal dollars!!!<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Paul-Leather.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1457\" alt=\"Paul Leather\" src=\"https:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Paul-Leather-300x240.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Paul-Leather-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Paul-Leather.jpg 430w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NH DoE Deputy Commissioner Paul Leather states that &#8220;The state system is required by federal law [to administer Smarter Balanced Assessments] but [these assessments] may NOT help us improve teaching and learning.\u00a0\u00a0(Excerpt from\u00a0http:\/\/www.governor.nh.gov\/media\/news\/2015\/pr-2015-03-05-pace.htm) The Deputy Commissioner just acknowledged that the statewide assessment &#8220;MAY NOT HELP \u00a0IMPROVE TEACHING AND LEARNING.&#8221; So why waste the time on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,25],"tags":[431,350,430,379],"class_list":["post-1452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sbac","category-testing","tag-deputycommissioner","tag-doe","tag-paulleather","tag-smarterbalanced"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1452"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1458,"href":"https:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1452\/revisions\/1458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}