Legislative Update: Statewide voucher bill clears House vote
On January 3, the New Hampshire House of Representatives voted to pass the amended version of SB 193, the bill that creates a statewide...
Student Voice Summit brought together over 100 students and educators
Incorporating student voice has been on the radar of many New Hampshire schools over the past few years in an effort to improve school culture and...
Rep. Tamara Le: SB 8 is fundamentally flawed and unconstitutional
Representative Tamara Le (Rock-31), a member of the House Education Committee, submitted this piece to Seacoast Online about Senate Bill 8, also known as...
New Hampshire changes statewide assessment for students
New Hampshire students will not be taking the Smarter Balanced Assessment in the spring, reported the Concord Monitor. The Department of Education has contracted...
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...
Trading Kindergarten for Votes: UL Editorial Board
The Union Leader Editorial Board featured an editorial on the budget negotiations, including debates over funding for full-day kindergarten. Here's an excerpt:
Legislative leadership should use...
Manchester schools highlight innovations in learning to national commission of state...
The National Conference of State Legislatures' Student-Centered Learning Commission visited several Manchester schools to observe innovations in learning first hand, like competency-based education, online...
NG2 program trades the status quo for flexible, responsive learning pathways
California-based education technology organization EdSurge featured a piece on New Hampshire's pilot "No Grades, No Grades" (NG2) program in 7 of the state's elementary schools.
With...
Full-day kindergarten a good investment
The Seacoast Online Editorial Board featured a piece supporting full-day kindergarten funding in their Sunday edition. It “has true educational value and deserves the...
Sanborn Superintendent Brian Blake "a true champion for children"
Dr. Brian Blake, superintendent of Sanborn Regional School District, was recently recognized as 2016's Superintendent of the Year by the New Hampshire School Administrators Association and the American Association of School Administrators. Dr. Blake has worked to implement competency-based education models and the PACE program in his district, and has made it a model for innovative and student-centered learning.
