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By JEREMY MARGOLIS

At 274 students, Loudon Elementary School is too small to sustain both a principal and vice principal, but the school’s size doesn’t completely diminish the scope of administrative responsibilities that must be handled.At some schools without an...

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

While maintaining that Broken Ground is the ideal site for the new middle school due to its ample space, the Concord School Board has started downsizing the building and cutting amenities, bringing the project cost to a tentative $152 million.This is...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

As Olivia Sylvester lined up to lead Franklin’s 100th Class Day Parade, she put her sunglasses on and lifted her drum up onto her shoulders. With her blue cap and gown, this year’s class co-valedictorian led the parade with the rolls of her sticks and...

By DEB HOWES

Deb Howes is the president of AFT-New Hampshire. A funny thing happened on New Hampshire’s way to threatening to fire teachers for teaching so-called divisive concepts involving gender, race, history and identity. U.S. District Court Judge Paul...

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

When students at Merrimack Valley Middle School returned to sixth-grade science teacher Kristen Bean Warren’s classroom on the Wednesday after Memorial Day weekend, they encountered a mystery.Vegetable plants germinating in a hydroponic growing system...

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

New Hampshire’s Department of Education has released documents that support an assertion made by Commissioner Frank Edelblut that a New Hampshire teacher transported a student to get an abortion.The commissioner’s claim was made in an April Op-Ed...

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

A day after Concord’s School Board unveiled long-awaited cost estimates for its middle school project, city leaders encouraged the school board to ensure and communicate that the school buildings are shared community assets.“Taxpayers are saying,...

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

When Edward Amonor Jr. arrived at Merrimack Valley Middle School in 2019 from Ghana, he knew no one and spoke only broken English.At first, he sat alone at lunch. But then a boy named Abhi Karki introduced himself.“He was the first person I felt...

By SOFIE BUCKMINSTER

Seemingly every graduation speech throws around the word “family.” For the 35 graduates of Pittsfield Middle High School, the term is more than a cliché.“This town, this school, these people will forever be ingrained in our personality,” said...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Farhaan Siddiqui knows how to use the Python programming language, and was running scripts for the University of New Hampshire’s engineering school as a high school student. But away from his computer, he gravitated to a different challenge – scaling...

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

Fitting in can be daunting for any high school student, but for Avery Condon, a senior at Hopkinton High School with Tourette’s syndrome, it could have been even more challenging.But it wasn’t. His classmates embraced him wholeheartedly, never...

By SOFIE BUCKMINSTER

With six kids, a full-time job for Butler Bus Company and pet snakes, dogs and goats, Sarah Hodgdon didn’t have much free time. But this year, she earned her high school diploma.Her house was too hectic for her to be able to focus, so she took...

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

Spending on Concord’s new middle school could be capped at as high as $166.6 million or as low as $136.2 million depending on a range of decisions still to come, according to long-anticipated cost estimates presented at a meeting Thursday night.The...

By CARISA CORROW

Carisa Corrow of Penacook is co-author of “126 Falsehoods We Believe About Education” and founder of Educating for Good. I appreciated the recent article on Portrait of a Graduate in schools, and although it is a good primer, there are some...

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

 To offset the uniformity of the Spartan green cap and gown, some Pembroke Academy graduates decorated their caps with designs or inspirational quotes. Class president Abdalla Faiad donned a red and white keffiyah, the traditional Middle Eastern...

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

In Laura McKenna’s second-grade class at Concord’s Mill Brook School, her 16 students speak at least four different languages at home, from Kinyarwanda to French.On Tuesday morning, following a meeting that involved freeze dance, high fives, and a...

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

Jenny Jones grew up in Pembroke, attended its schools, and began her teaching career at Pembroke Hill School 23 years ago. Over the years, she taught the children of her own childhood friends, pouring energy into a calling that felt decidedly...

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

A month after a bipartisan group of state representatives united to pass a bill that would increase state education funding, Democrat and Republican senators came together last week to vote it down.The legislation, HB 1583, would have increased...

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

A federal judge on Tuesday struck down New Hampshire’s controversial “divisive concepts” law, ruling that it is “unconstitutionally vague” in violation of the Constitution’s 14th amendment.The summary judgment ruling by Judge Paul J. Barbadoro was...

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

It’s possible that no one in the region has coached more youth and high school sports games than Tom Burke.Burke, 72, started coaching middle school basketball at St. John Regional School in 1970 at the age of 19. Since then, Burke has coached roughly...