A new reality: Educators reflect on the first weeks of remote...

On Monday and Thursday mornings at 11:30, Franklyn Bass sets aside his regular duties as interim superintendent of the Concord School District and logs...

“We’re just trying to take it day by day”: Educators reflect...

On ordinary weekday mornings, the network of sidewalks branching out from Christa McAuliffe School in downtown Concord host processions of children: on bikes and...

Bridging gaps: Remote learning creates new challenges in meeting diverse student...

Michelle Davis has spent her entire 24-year teaching career in Franklin, a quiet city tucked between the state’s capital and the White Mountains. History...

Educators face challenges in delivering support services and addressing new hardships

In the early weeks of remote learning following Gov. Sununu’s executive order to close all K-12 schools, SAU 24 Superintendent Jacqueline Coe sent out...

Adjustments, disappointments, and silver linings: Students reflect on remote learning

The final weeks of school are typically abuzz with celebrations and traditions, handshakes and hugs and tears. Teenagers sway to sugary dance tunes. Sweaty,...

Complex equations: Districts brace for pandemic’s economic fallout

Even before the coronavirus pandemic shuttered schools along with nearly every sector of the economy, the Newport School District was under financial strain. In...

Career roadblocks: School closures disrupt students’ pathways to professions

Plymouth State University student Kassidy Silva had just begun her junior-year practicum at Franklin Middle School when the first cases of coronavirus were diagnosed...

Lessons Learned: Assessing the successes and challenges of remote learning and...

It was an almost unthinkable reality. Signs outside of schools read “No school or events until further notice.” Yellow tape encircled deserted school playgrounds....

“Hooray! All day Xbox!”: How RHNH staff is adjusting to our...

Here at Reaching Higher NH, we’re learning how to cope with our “new normal”: working from home, while also learning how to step in...

Community on the brink: Idyllic New Hampshire town beset by school...

Roots run deep in the small town of Hopkinton, a rural community just west of New Hampshire’s capital. Many residents can trace their lineage...