New Hampshire Balance

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Are the Common Core math standards "developmentally appropriate" for Kindergarteners? It depends, as always, on who's teaching.

Opponents say that the Common Core standards, especially the math standards, are not…

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"Who Says Math Has to Be Boring?" - a very interesting NYT editorial

There’s an unusual editorial in today’s New York Times.  It’s all about how to interest more kids…

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Yesterday's PISA results stimulate a real discussion about the role of testing in learning

Yesterday’s PISA results will be the subject of a lot of debate and analysis but one exchange…

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Writing the Common Core standards: teachers on the ground were deeply involved

Susan Pimentel specializes in writing educational standards and was the lead author, along with David Coleman, of the English Language Arts Common Core standards.  Heather Driscollhelps New Hampshire schools organize and improve their curricula and worked…

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Watch this 5 minute video from the AFT about what PISA actually tells us. It's right.

There’s a lot of effort this yearto discount the PISA results, but here’s a great, constructive…

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Here are two useful reviews of the PISA data released today

We’ve seen a move in recent months to pre-reject the latest results (and here) of the Organization…

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Delaware teacher slams lousy implementation of the Common Core, thinking other states must do as bad a job. Not tru

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Bow High School English teacher Joy Dustin on how to get students to love reading - Concord Monitor

Back on October 8, Bow High English teacher Joy Dustin wrote in the Concord Monitorabout the Common…

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Sue Hannan, teacher at Hillside, in Manchester: "We need to set a higher standard. The Common Core does that."

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Courtney Menswar, Manchester third grade teacher on the Common Core: "I can start to see the kids thinking more"

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Susan Martin, Kindergarten teacher at Mt. Lebanon Elementary: Common Core is "phenomenally hard" but most welcome it

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Deb Springhorn, American Studies teacher at Lebanon High School: we've been doing Common Core for 20 years

Deb Springhorn speaks briefly at the Common Core town hall lunch during the NEA-NH professional…

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Richard Kirby, 6th grade teacher, talks about the Common Core and parents' response at Alton Central School

Here is Richard Kirby, who teaches 6th grade math and social studies at Alton Central School, the single school in the Alton school district recently famous for voting to “reject” the Common Core.  A second Alton teacher chimes in at the end.

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Kathy Kirby, Hollis/Brookline High social studies teacher on CCSS: more primary source material - fewer text books.

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Diane Johnson, teaching first and second grade, says the Common Core "is less and more, all at the same time"

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Nashua school board turns down measure fighting Common Core - Nashua Telegraph

The Nashua school board vote didn’t get too much attention last week, but it’s an important foreshadowing on the upcoming legislative session.  School board member and state representative David Murotake proposed a resolution (here’s my post about it)…

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Do kids need protection from the Common Core - or are they too coddled? - Frank Bruni gets it right in the NY Times

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