Tag: Next Generation Science Standards

A Call for Democrat Rep. Luneau To Support Quality and Politically Unbiased Science Standards

September 11, 2023

by Ann Marie Banfield

Dear Representative Luneau, After listening to your testimony opposing the State Board of Education from adopting Prager U Financial Literacy for Learn Everywhere, I hope that you will now become an advocate for addressing and removing the political bias students in New Hampshire are faced with when they enter our public schools. Your passionate testimony before Commissioner Edelblut, … Read more

DeSantis vs. Sununu on Public Education

August 30, 2023

by Ann Marie Banfield

There is a big difference between Governor DeSantis and Governor Sununu when it comes to improving public education. Democrats will claim that Republicans do not care about public education because they are the party of tax and spend.

Dumbing Down NH Schools: Why It’s Happening

October 28, 2022

by Ann Marie Banfield

I was not surprised by this bad news. As NHPR reported:

“Test scores released this week by the U.S. Department of Education show New Hampshire students’ reading and math test scores on the decline, continuing a trend seen over the last nine years.”

Political Indoctrination in The NH Science Standards Needs to STOP

March 2, 2022

by Ann Marie Banfield

RE-POSTING testimony I presented to The New Hampshire State Board of Education in 2017

Testimony given to the NH State Board of Education on May 11, 2017:

Is it a Bad Idea to Replace Classrooms and Teachers with Digital Learning?

July 14, 2020

by Ann Marie Banfield

For several years, those of us who research public education noticed the push for placing children in front of a screen to do the work of the teacher. We’ve seen it with the push for 1:1 devices. And yet Silicon Valley techies have done the opposite.