Education

May 18th GrokTALK! Guest Segment – Ann Marie Banfield

May 19, 2013

Ann Marie Banfield from Cornerstone Policy Research talks about Education and Common Core in the state of New Hampshire and the nations; what it is really all about, and what we need to know to stop it and why.  Listen Here Download this segment here You can get links to other segments or listen to [ Read more ]

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Last Weeks Podcast Now Available at AC Nation Radio…and A Look at Upcoming Guests

April 25, 2013

This weeks Podcast is now (also) available from AC Nation radio. – Dr. Julianne Cooper, who is the founder and a teacher at Liberty Harbor Academy in Manchester New Hampshire,  visits to talk about a real Western Liberal Arts Education, Common Core, Teenage brains, surviving 25 years in the White Tower, learning 9 to 5, and how [ Read more ]

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April 20th GrokTALK! Snippets – Segment Four: Guest – NH Business Owner Josh Youssef

April 21, 2013

In Segment four we talk with Josh Youssef, local small business owner and former candidate for the New Hampshire State Senate,  about HB 370 (repealing education choice),  State Senator Andrew Hosmer, education in general, what the Teachers Unions are actually after, and more.  (With Dr. Julianne Cooper who sticks around to add to the conversation.) [ Read more ]

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April 20th GrokTALK! Snippets – Segment Three: Guest – Dr. Julianne Cooper from Liberty Academy

April 21, 2013

Dr. Julianne Cooper visits GrokTALK! to chat about a Liberal education, Common Core, Teenage brains, surviving 25 years in the White Tower, Learning 9 to 5, and how those ‘new’ progressive ideas you keep hearing about are not as new as you think. Note: Individual guest segements will be posted throughout the day today. You [ Read more ]

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State Senate Votes 13-11 to Table HB 370 – The Education Scholarship Credit Lives!!!

April 18, 2013

HB 370, the government-school monopoly, anti-education-choice-bill from the union-owned Democrat House, that would have repealed the education scholarship tax credit that passed last year, has been tabled by the New Hampshire State Senate.    Tabling a bill is not legislative death but it is not unlike locking a prisoner up in a dungeon and forgetting they are there.  Someone might wander [ Read more ]

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NH State Senate To Vote On Education Choice Tomorrow

April 17, 2013

HB 370, the New Hampshire Democrats effort to punish the children of poor and lower income families, to keep them out of private schools by denying them an opportunity to get a scholarship, will be voted on tomorrow by the New Hampshire State Senate. Back in April of 2012 we reported on how 71% of New Hampshire’s public schools [ Read more ]

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A List of 54 Anti Common Core Facebook Pages – By State

April 11, 2013

Laura Rambeau Lee from Right Reason.com has done us all a great service.  She has compiled a list of all the anti-common core facebook pages by state. There are 54 links (so far), three in New Hampshire, so feel free to check a few of them out.  And by all means, like these groups and [ Read more ]

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State Senate Committee Votes to End NH Democrat Efforts at Repealing Education Equality

April 9, 2013

From Facebook: Senator Andy Sanborn reports fabulous news!! –> the Senate Health, Education, and Human Services Committee voted to kill HB370, so that’s a win for parents and school choice!!! The Senate will still have to vote on the recommendation to kill the repeal effort but this is a very positive signal.   And I I get to [ Read more ]

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“Defending NH’s Public Education” Monopoly

March 13, 2013

So what it is about Christianity that Mr. Duncan dislikes so much? For starters, let’s look at that old bugaboo ‘The 10 Commandments”: Does he oppose the one that says we shouldn’t kill? How about the one that says we shouldn’t lie? Or how about the one that says we shouldn’t steal? Or maybe it’s [ Read more ]

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The Value Proposition of K-12 Education: a failing proposition. New York City shows why

March 9, 2013

Recent news: “Officials: Most NYC High School Grads Need Remedial Help Before Entering CUNY Community Colleges” (reformatted, emphasis mine) NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — It’s an education bombshell. Nearly 80 percent of New York City high school graduates need to relearn basic skills before they can enter the City University’s community college system. The number of [ Read more ]

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The War on Poor Children by Religious Bigots in New Hampshire

March 4, 2013

There is an excellent article over at Math Wizards, on the effort by some in New Hampshire to repeal a scholarship program for poor kids titled “HB370: A WAR ON POOR CHILDREN IN NEW HAMPSHIRE by RELIGIOUS BIGOTS?” The article observes that opponents are pointing to the NH State constitution as a reason for repeal, but [ Read more ]

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A liberal’s view of Education

March 1, 2013

(H/T: Liberal Logic 101)

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What Ever Happened to The Inductive Method?

February 16, 2013

Another great video on education destined to make the public school union folks bleed out their eyes.  Here’s the blurb from PJTV and Next Generation TV. Victor Davis Hanson joins Col. Allen B. West to discuss our modern system of education. In the zero sum game of educating our children, Dr. Hanson asks, who is [ Read more ]

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About That Charter Schools Funding

February 14, 2013

From the Daily Caller. A charter schools advocacy organization in New Hampshire has captured video showing (New Hampshire) Democrat Mary Stuart Gile, who chairs the education committee in the state’s House of Representatives, apparently changing her position on charter schools in a four-minute flash.   Opponents of the bill want to see the bill fail because [ Read more ]

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A New Hampshire Income Tax By Hook or By Crook

February 4, 2013

Tomorrow there is a hearing (10am – LOB 301) for HB 330. HB 330 would allow any county delegation in New Hampshire to adopt a ‘County Income tax’ to be administered by the New Hampshire Department of Revenue Administration (DRA). HB330 sells its tax as money that would go toward paying for education (public education [ Read more ]

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So Dan, what say you when Government Teachers openly say they will indoctrinate their students against American Society?

January 13, 2013

and declare War on American Society as it now stands? And Hunter Dan (aka IWKAGGP aka Dan William, a Govt school music teacher) decided to leave the same comment on my Head Start post and on Steve’s The Left’s War on Education: So I guess four weeks is the right span of time for the [ Read more ]

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Common Core won’t improve education

October 26, 2012

This is a letter I wrote to the Nashua Telegraph.  Their version was edited.   Here is the original. When President Obama touts “education reform” as one of his accomplishments, most people do not realize that he is referring to the new Common Core State Standards being implemented nationwide, including in New Hampshire. Governor Lynch [ Read more ]

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Guest Post by NH House Rep. Greg Hill – “Dems misrepresent the education tax credit program.”

October 26, 2012

 Dems misrepresent the education tax credit program. I attended a candidates’ night last evening in Northfield and listened carefully to the Democratic candidates for state representative and senate. They all opposed the new education tax-credit program (and, oddly, spoke out against voucher programs as well, which aren’t even available to NH parents). The reason the [ Read more ]

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Guest Post: Mike Johnson – “New Hampshire, Tear Down This Firewall”

October 21, 2012

New Hampshire, Tear Down This Firewall Mike Johnson mnosnhoj@comcast.net 10/21/12 You have a choice, New Hampshire, an important choice, a life-style choice. Like our motto says, you can “Live Free or Die,” a free self-reliant citizen of New Hampshire, proud of yourself and proud of your state and your country.  Or you can “Live Dependent [ Read more ]

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Democrat Education Plans Repeat Previous Failures

October 4, 2012

The debates between Maggie Hassan, Democrat, and Ovide Lamontaigne, Republican, remind me that the success of our children is at stake in this election.  Democrat allegiance to Unions and the Educational Establishment lock children into failing public schools.      Today’s Democrat solution to educational problems has been providing increasingly poorer results for decades, just spend [ Read more ]

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Our destructive government schools…

September 27, 2012

…and why we desperately need competition and alternatives. This from today’s Wall Street Journal (bless those WSJ editorial pages!) where the owner of an employment agency writes in to explain that there are “jobs going begging” because applicants lack extraordinarily basic skills that public schools have failed to inculcate. Those “skills”? Well, it’s almost ridiculous to use that [ Read more ]

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Educating With Hassan

August 22, 2012

Maggie “Louisville Slugger” Hassan has a banner ad running over at the Concord Monitor with the pull quote…’I’ll Stand up to anyone who wants to cut Education.’  This is a dirty lie. Any effort to expand education outside that narrow corridor of Democrat political influence will be blocked.  Any existing programs that support education without [ Read more ]

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When Can We Cut the Other 50%?

August 16, 2012

There is a lovely new candidate survey being mailed out to New Hampshire candidates from the Concord Monitor.  While most of the questions are loaded to demarcate the right left divide in state politics–have to make sure we know who the “TEA Party Extremists” are–one question in particular stood out. “Do you support last year’s [ Read more ]

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Ray Buckley- Another Tall Tale About Budgets, Education, and Bill O’Brien

August 3, 2012

Ray Buckley, Chairman of the New Hampshire Democrat Party is quoted as having actually said this. (DiStaso – Granite Status) “The people of New Hampshire are more concerned with Bill O’Brien’s behavior acting as the House speaker, his state budget that has New Hampshire in the red, and his policies that have caused a loss [ Read more ]

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Politician’s Intentions

June 27, 2012

The letter below by Tony Boutin makes some excellent points about government actions and education in particular.  It appeared in the June 22, 2012, Laconia Daily Sun, http://issuu.com/dailysun/docs/lds6-22-12 While I agree with the author that politicians claim good intentions for all government actions driven by their policies, some politicians never seem to learn that the [ Read more ]

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