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So Manchester Board of School Committee Jim O’Connell, do YOU know how to close the Achievement Gap without more spending?

June 10, 2020 Ann Marie Banfield

Money doesn’t cure all ills. MANCHESTER Jim O’Connell now sits on the Board of School Committee. His claim to fame has been his constant call for MORE SPENDING in the schools (see screencap, below). He put out a statement on racism in the Manchester schools so I thought I’d send him a reply: I’m going to … Read more

This Rot we’re Seeing with BLM Riots Started in Our School Systems.

June 7, 2020 Ann Marie Banfield

Now that you’ve seen the mayhem in action, where is this coming from? Why does it appear to be mainly young people who are rioting and expressing their Marxist views? LOOK NO FURTHER THAN YOUR LOCAL PUBLIC SCHOOL.

Stopping Petty Tyrannies Is How We Beat the Serious Ones

May 27, 2020May 27, 2020

My dentist called today with a reminder for an upcoming scheduled appointment. We confirmed the date and time. Then the office worker said the practice requires patients to wear face masks. It made me pause for a moment.

Are Public School Teachers Giving Up on a Normal School Year for 2020-2021 (And is that Bad?)

May 27, 2020 Steve MacDonald

File this under people send me stuff. A teacher who shall remain anonymous (no relation to me in case you are curious) shared some observations from several teachers’ groups with which they are a member. Summary: people are ALREADY giving up on a typical school year next year.

Online Learning May Help the US Close Education Gap

Op-Ed: For Some Students, a ‘One-Size-Fits-All’ Public School Education Just Doesn’t Work

May 26, 2020May 26, 2020 Op-Ed

We couldn’t believe what we were hearing a few weeks ago when Nashua’s Executive Councilor Debora Pignatelli stated on WMUR’s Close Up that she believes the education of students at private schools or public charter schools are not “legitimate concerns” of our elected state officials.

NH Dem Deb Pignatelli: Some NH Educations are “More Equal” than Others

May 18, 2020May 17, 2020 Steve MacDonald

A New Hampshire Democrat Executive Councilor has a problem when it comes to New Hampshire’s students and federal funding. Some students and their educations, in her mind, are “more equal” than others.

Pro Tip for Remote Schooling

April 29, 2020April 28, 2020 Ian Underwood

Many students — and their parents — have been caught off guard by the COVID-induced transition from on-site schooling to remote schooling. However, there is a technology — which many students already have access to — that can help make up for the loss of classroom teaching time. Let me describe what it is, and how it works.

Back to School Budgets in the Age of Wuhan Flus

April 26, 2020

If the threat of the Chinese Wuhan Virus is to be taken seriously enough that government schools had to be closed for the rest of the year it might be time to re-think public education operating out of huge child and administrator warehouses.

Career guide: how to become a lawyer

April 23, 2020April 23, 2020 Guest Contributor

Law is one of the most rewarding professions in the world. This is because it promises high financial returns and flexible working hours too. Besides, the career is highly competitive, and the demand for attorneys keeps on increasing with time. However, the profession is demanding and requires one to have proper planning strategies and critical … Read more

VIDEO: Remote Learning Conversation with Commissioner Edelblut

April 15, 2020 Steve MacDonald

Last night Americans for Prosperity New Hampshire hosted a discussion with Department of Education Commissioner Frank Edelblut and SBOE Chair Drew Cline. The conversation focused on Remote Learning in New Hampshire because of COVID, state policy changes that needed to be made to make it possible, why NH was able to leap into Remote Learning … Read more

We Are At War To Be ‘We The People’ Again

April 14, 2020 Skip

The Democrats (D’s) want President Donald Trump out of the White House. Every other consideration, even mass starvation or death, seems irrelevant to them. They simply do not care. That’s what the ‘D’ really stands for… DEATH.

How COVID-19 Influences the Education System

April 8, 2020April 8, 2020 Guest Contributor

COVID-19 is a health crisis that has affected most nations around the world. To manage the spread of this virus, most countries have decided to close all learning institutions. This crisis is making things difficult especially for government heads.

Stuck Inside? Try Some Free Online Courses Care-Of Cambridge, Harvard, and MIT

April 2, 2020 Steve MacDonald

With all this talk about distance learning and online education for the kiddies, did you stop for a second and consider your own? You can and should because there are thousands of free online college classes from which to choose.

Radical Leftist Professors Worry Online Learning Lectures Will End up On Right-Wing Web Sites

March 20, 2020 Steve MacDonald

I’d like to thank Emily Farris. Who’s that? She is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Texas Christian University. She is concerned that recoded lectures on anything controversial could end up on web sites like GraniteGrok. Capital Idea!

The Most Important Thing We Can Do is Learn from This Outbreak

March 16, 2020 Op-Ed

Applying a smidgen of logic to what we have already observed will go a long way towards understanding the ‘real’ Coronavirus. While many ‘experts’ contend doom and gloom are around every corner, I prefer to let common sense take over.

Ed-icaid: A Better Word for the Failed Government Monopoly on Education?

March 7, 2020March 7, 2020 Steve MacDonald

The government-run public school experiment has failed. Costs are out of control, and most of the money is spent on overhead, in other words, typical of government interventions. We’re wasting millions annually, at every opportunity, to pay staff and managers who have nothing to do with teaching.

Education Worship: When Anything is Made an End in itself it Becomes a False God

February 28, 2020

America is engaged in education worship. When anything is made an end in itself it becomes a false god. All things must be a means to achieving goodness. Why else should people exist? Sometimes we lack wisdom or perhaps we lose perspective. Today we seem to be doing that with education.

A New Path to Careers for NH High School Students

February 28, 2020 Op-Ed

When we talk about students who are not succeeding in our current education system, we often say that they “slipped through the cracks.” Well, what if we filled in those cracks so that students could move seamlessly from high school to college to the workforce?

Who has your child’s data in school?

February 27, 2020 Ann Marie Banfield

After reading through an opinion piece written by William R. Harbron Ed.D, superintendent of the Dover School District in Dover: Education in Dover: What is social and emotional learning and why you should care, I noticed he left many important issues out of this new federal education policy that parents need to be aware of. Should government schools … Read more

School funding: How much is enough?

February 22, 2020February 22, 2020 Ian Underwood

There is a question that should be asked of anyone who wants to make a case for increasing the amount that we spend on public schools. Usually, they just say that the amount needed is ‘more than it is now’.

But how much more?