A Right to Know Request: Next Gen Science Standards
(Hours 3b,c) After encouraging his listeners to let New Hampshire’s Executive...
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Tag: Inside Education
DOE Holds Taxpayer Funded Closed-Door Meeting
(Hours 2a,3a) Rich informed the listeners about an invite-only meeting that the State Department of Education organized. He spoke about the intention of the meeting and shared his opinion that any leader that attends...
Read MoreGlassner on Literacy and College/Career Readiness
(Hour 3a) After telling the listeners about his plans for today’s Inside Education, Sid Glassner talked to Rich about the importance of language for Is Our Children Learning. They discussed literacy in education....
Read MoreSid Glassner and Don’t Wait, Educate
(Hours 3a,b,c) Rich started the segment of Is Our Children Learning by giving us a breaking news notification. He then welcomed Sid Glassner onto the show and they changed the subject to last night’s Democratic...
Read MoreGlassner on the Smarter Balanced Assessments
(Hours 3b,c) Sid Glassner, Senior Fellow with the New England Society for the Study of Education, opened up this segment of Is Our Children Learning by talking about the recent circumstance with the Manchester School Board not...
Read MoreGlassner on teacher’s contract, Common Core, etc.
(Hour 3a,b,c) This morning Sid Glassner, Senior Fellow with the New England Society for the Study of Education, joined us for Is Our Children Learning to talk to us about the recent news regarding the teacher’s contract....
Read MoreHealth and learning
(Hour 2b) Dr. Jeff Czarnec talked to us about the human health in this segment. He discussed the need to stay in shape, bikram yoga, and the importance of self discipline. He talked to us about the change of communication from...
Read MoreSid Glassner on Social Promotion, Achieve, etc.
(Hour 3a,b&c) Sid Glassner, of Inside Education, joined us for Is Our Children Learning and discussed social promotion. He described the nature of the organization Achieve and shared about where Gov. Maggie Hassan stands...
Read MoreWrite what you know!
(Hour 1a) What is up with police speak? Does every press release from police departments and line reads have to sound like an episode of Dragnet? Rich, who has thirty years of experience writing all manner of copy, discussed...
Read MoreInside Education: MAINE — THE COMMON CORE AND HIGH-STAKES TESTING
Heidi Sampson, a member of the Maine State Board of Education was Sid’s guest today on “Inside Education.” Heidi described the legislation that is now pending before the state legislature regarding the future of the Common Core...
Read MoreInside Education: A SEMINAR — TESTING 101
In the first segment of today’s show Sid shared his reactions to Monday night’s special Manchester School Board meeting with state education Commissioner Barry and chair of the State Board of Education, Tom Raffio. The meeting...
Read MoreInside Education: LOCAL TEACHER SHARES IMPACT OF HIGH-STAKES TESTING
Diane Sekula, a local 6th, 7th and 8th grade teacher, discussed with Sid how high-stakes testing and its first cousin, The Common Core, has negatively transformed the nature and character of the public school experience for our...
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