Jay Mathews of the Washington Post had an interesting column yesterday about the use of the term “at risk” when defining a certain population of students. The students are often minority students and come from low-income households. Mathews writes about a school district in Virginia which had dropped the term from its vocabulary. The district [...]

Rivier College and the Nashua School District have announced a partnership for a dual enrollment agreement that will give high school students the opportunity to earn college credit through taking courses at their own schools.
Here is the press release:
NASHUA, N.H.—Rivier College has signed a dual enrollment agreement allowing students at Nashua North and South high [...]

The federal stimulus funds have been flowing into the Nashua School District this year. But exactly how many jobs has this funding created?
In response to a request from The Telegraph, the school district provided a list of all of the positions currently being funded through funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Here is [...]

Nashua High School North students will soon have the chance to build robots in class.
Last night, the Nashua Board of Education approved a new course called robotics technology. The unleveled course will be for a quarter credit and begin being offered next fall. There will be four sections with 18 students per section. Sophomores, juniors [...]

Over the past year there has been much debate in Nashua about whether separating students by ability in the middle schools, a process referred to as leveling or tracking, is appropriate.
It seems Nashua isn’t the only district having this conversation.
According to an article in today’s New York Times, the Stamford, Conn. school district, a district similar in size and demographics to Nashua, has decided to deviate [...]

About 50 district administrators will be attending a leadership workshop later this month hosted by the Center for Secondary School Redesign.
The title of the workshop is “Change Leadership,” which, according to the district, will “focus on what must be done to enhance both infrastructure/system and leadership capacity to ensure the success of any new initiative.” Funding [...]

When the city gets a new superintendent, it’s not unusual for that person to come into the job without any previous experience running a school district.
In fact, it’s the norm.
Last night, the Board of Education named former business administrator Mark Conrad as its choice for superintendent. Conrad, currently chief financial officer for the Bedford schools, said he [...]

News of the proposed sale of Daniel Webster College to ITT Educational Services isn’t sitting well with a group of alumni.
A group has formed on Facebook called “I went to Daniel Webster before it sold out.”
The group’s picture (right) reflects at least the feelings of the group’s creator: a Daniel Webster College degree with “ITT Tech” [...]

It appears that Daniel Webster College has started a blog that is being used as a forum for answering questions about and responding to criticisms of the proposed ITT sale.
Called “A New Day for DWC,” most of the blog postings are comments taken directly from stories published on the Nashua Telegraph Web site or on Facebook, with Vice [...]

After sending out an e-mail Thursday morning to staff and faculty announcing the sale of Daniel Webster College to ITT Educational Services, President Robert “Skip” Myers felt it was necessary to send out a clarifying e-mail later in the day.
In the e-mail, Myers stressed that the college and ITT will be separate entities. Here is the full [...]