Souhegan HS Teacher Jenny Deenik on PACE: Performance Assessment is a...
Jenny Deenik, a biology teacher at Souhegan High School, reflects on her work with New Hampshire's pilot Performance Assessment of Competency Education (PACE) program...
First year PACE results are in: what do they mean for...
The Department of Education recently released the results of the first Performance Assessment of Competency Education (PACE) program. It was piloted in four districts...
PACE works to get the most out of student assessments without...
States are trying to find the balance between quality and quantity in student testing, but New Hampshire is already pointing the way forward: the PACE pilot project.
This Maine teacher shows how multiple chances to demonstrate competency can...
Courtney Belolan, a teacher and teaching coach in Maine's RSU 2 school district, which serves communities north of Augusta, explains how student-centered learning can...
In the new PACE assessments, students must prove they can apply...
Souheghan High School, Spaulding High School in Rochester, and Concord High School all have something in common--they've moved to competency-based performance assessments. The Concord...
Student-centered assessments put learners’ strengths first
In the Maine classrooms of RSU 2, the school districts serving several communities near Augusta, instructional coach Courtney Belolan helps teachers use a different...
Granite State students score higher than national average on SAT
The College Board released the score reports on the Class of 2015, and New Hampshire students scored 76 points higher than the national average. According...
More NH graduates meet ACT College and Career Readiness Benchmarks
The results are in, and more New Hampshire students are meeting the ACT's College and Career Ready Benchmarks than in the past five years.
According...
Rochester begins its second year with performance based assessments
Rochester is one of four New Hampshire school districts beginning the second year of the pilot PACE program, which replaces some standardized testing with locally-based...
PACE: proving individualized assessments are just as good as standardized tests...
States like New Hampshire that are incorporating competency-based education into their classrooms may wonder: how do we move from the traditional standardized test to...
