New Hampshire
News, analysis, and opinion about K-12 education in New Hampshire
Federal
Betsy DeVos Approves Six More ESSA Plans
U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos has the thumbs-up to ESSA plans from Georgia, Hawaii, Indiana, Kansas, Montana, and New Hampshire.
School & District Management
New Hampshire Earns a B on State Report Card, Ranks Fourth in Nation
This Quality Counts 2018 Highlights Report captures all the data you need to assess your state's performance on key educational outcomes.
Assessment
Opinion
Our Quest to Personalize Competency-Based Learning in New Hampshire
New Hampshire's Assessment for Learning Project (ALP) has been a quest to deepen and personalize competency-based learning for all students.
Every Student Succeeds Act
Betsy DeVos' Team Critiques ESSA Plans for Hawaii, Ky., Neb., N.H., and Wis.
All five states have work to do on the nuts-and-bolts of their ESSA accountability plans, the Trump education department says.
Assessment
Opinion
Performance Assessments and Students with Disabilities
Performance assessments have the potential to ensure that instruction for students with disabilities is aligned with state standards.
Standards & Accountability
N.H. Won't Overhaul the Common Core. Its Schools Chief Still Wants To.
The state's board voted not to open the Common Core to revision, but its commissioner still plans to review them informally, with an eye to future changes.
Early Childhood
New Hampshire Gambles on Big Payout for Full-Day Kindergarten
The Granite State has legalized Keno gambling and plans to tax the machines to partially fund full-day kindergarten for the state's 5-year-olds.
Standards & Accountability
Opinion
With ESSA, States Lead for Deeper Learning
With the Every Student Succeeds Act, states are shifting from accountability systems that label schools using a single indicator to multiple-measure systems aimed at continuous improvement.
States
New Hampshire Delays Vote on Controversial State Education Chief
New Hampshire's education commissioner nominee Frank Edelblut, a businessman, Republican and school choice proponent, has been criticized throughout the state for his lack of education experience.
Personalized Learning
Opinion
Personalized Learning in Action: Postcard From New Hampshire
Best known in education circles for its performance assessment, New Hampshire is a hotbed of innovation around personalized learning, writes Adriana Martinez of the Innovation Lab Network.
Assessment
Opinion
ESSA and Performance Assessments: Where States Go From Here
A recent summit meeting on assessment held in Virginia by Jobs for the Future suggests that that state may have solved some of the political challenges that have held back the advance of performance assessment.
Families & the Community
Opinion
How Better Engagement Can Support Innovation and Deeper Learning
Stakeholder engagement, as promising examples from Colorado and New Hampshire show, can help ensure that innovation is sustained.
School & District Management
How Student-Led Conferences Could Help Rural Schools
One rural district says student-led conferences have boosted parent involvement rates.
States
State of the States: Hawaii, N.H., Pa., R.I., Wyo.
Here are summaries of recent annual addresses by governors around the country.