Guest Post: Ann Marie Banfield
Dear Editor:
At the last Bedford School Board Meeting, the Board was presented information on the adoption of National Standards.
The New Hampshire Department of Education recently voted to approve the adoption of Common Core Standards in Math and English. During the testimony before the NH DOE, several people testified that the New Hampshire State Standards were not adequate. The Fordham Foundation agreed and gave NH math standards a "D".
Under Governor Lynch, the NH DOE set the bar incredibly low. While other states moved to improve their standards to an "A" level, our DOE was content to leave the bar low.
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