PRESS RELEASE: Reaching Higher NH releases groundbreaking research on student learning...

What are the major factors that influence student learning in New Hampshire? For our youngest learners, it is their family income. But as students...

What are the major factors that influence student learning in New...

To answer this question, Reaching Higher NH set out on a two-year project to explore how family, community, and statewide factors impact learning, and...

How do our teachers, classrooms, and other factors influence student learning?

This article is part of our Whole Picture of Public Education project, which uses state and national data to answer the question: what influences...

Harnessing the power of our communities for the benefit of our...

This article is part of our The Whole Picture of Public Education project, which uses state and national data to answer the question: what...

How economic security affects our youngest learners

This article is part of our Whole Picture of Public Education project, which uses state and national data to answer the question: what influences...

Informal Education Series: The Value of Proactive, Positive Outreach Home

After the first day of school, the boys shared that the best part of the day was, and I quote, “Hot lunch!” We heard...

As school starts across the state, some NH communities face sharp...

Schools across the state will start their school year facing a cut of $1.06 million in total state aid. However, when we look deeper,...

Informal Education Series: Building Trust, and Capacity, with Families

This post is about both capacity-building and building trust with families – but I’m going to tackle them in reverse, since that’s what happens...

Informal Education Series: Family Engagement Beyond Difficult Phone Calls

When I began my high school teaching career, I felt moderately confident with lesson and unit planning, creating assessments (formative and summative, of course),...

Four things you need to know about JLCAR

Learn Everywhere, a proposal from the Department of Education, is a set of rules that would allow private and nonprofit organizations to offer public...