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The Bell Curve is Nonsense

The “Bell Curve” has dominated how we think about learning and assessment and significantly limits the potential of our children. We know all kids...

School Officials Eye Voucher Bill

School administrators in the Upper Valley have mixed reactions on the impact that the proposed voucher bill, SB 193, would have on their districts,...

Massachusetts education advocate looks to NH as a model for meaningful...

Education advocate Lisa Guisbond used New Hampshire's performance assessment model, PACE, when advocating for more meaningful measures of student and school progress. From the...

Analysis finds that SB 193 may disadvantage students with disabilities

Reaching Higher New Hampshire, a nonpartisan education policy nonprofit, released an analysis of SB 193, a bill to create a statewide education savings account...

Concord Monitor: Advocates say special ed rights lost in school choice...

The Concord Monitor highlighted Reaching Higher NH's new analysis on the statewide voucher bill's impact on students with disabilities, underscoring the potential impacts to...

School officials speak out against voucher system

Hampton and Dover were the latest school boards to vote against SB 193, the bill that would create a statewide voucher bill, according to...

Senate bill aims to restrain commissioners

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Nine New Hampshire Senators have sponsored a bill in 2018 designed to forbid commissioners from engaging in partisan political activity. According to the Union...

Educator offers six reasons “to speak out immediately and loudly against...

In a column for the Concord Monitor, educator Joe Onosko offered six reasons why New Hampshire should reject the voucher program created by SB...

Building a “culture of thinking” to help students become lifelong learners

Educators can help students build a "culture of thinking" that challenges them to deepen their understanding of the world around them and become lifelong,...

N.H. Attorney General: School Gun Bans Unlawful

Lebanon and other communities that have adopted firearm bans on school grounds will have to revise them to comply with a state law passed...