Meet Our Team: Matt Gerding, Policy Analyst
Matt Gerding joined Reaching Higher in the summer of 2022 as our new policy analyst. Matt comes to us from the Somersworth School District,...
Meet our team: Kayla Provencher stays focused on students
Kayla Provencher, Reaching Higher’s Public Policy Researcher, has been a student almost her whole life, finishing grad school just this past spring. She experienced...
‘Claremont’ podcast series offers context for current school funding lawsuits, debates
A new school funding lawsuit was filed last month and a second one is scheduled for trial early next year -- but the issues...
PODCAST: A Taste of Medicine
A new healthcare pre-apprenticeship offers high school students the chance to prepare for a registered apprenticeship in one of three fields while working at Dartmouth Hitchcock...
Spotlight on school boards: Why they matter, what they do, and...
A school is the heart of its community: preparing its citizens for the future, providing the town a sense of identity, and bringing people...
PODCAST: Little Learners, Big Ideas
To support their youngest learners as they adapt to full-time, in-person learning -- some for the first time -- educators are rethinking classroom structures...
PODCAST: ‘Claremont, Part Two’ explores the impact of the historic school...
To fully understand school funding in New Hampshire, it helps to travel back in time to a pair of lawsuits bearing the name of...
PODCAST: ‘Claremont’ traces the throughline of school funding
To fully understand school funding in New Hampshire, it helps to travel back in time to a pair of lawsuits bearing the name of...
PODCAST: A Firsthand Look at “First Gens”
https://open.spotify.com/episode/63gpNGX6pFx019ii5HHsLp?si=RLwgZ9v-Ri6z53W1_nxAqg&dl_branch=1
First-generation college students face specific challenges such as decoding the "hidden curriculum" of college life, but they also bring strong positive traits such as...
PODCAST: Ready, Set, Graduate
What do today’s graduates need in order to succeed and thrive? One school district is taking a hard look at itself to answer that...
