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Inside New Hampshire’s teacher shortage

A new report issued by the Committee to Study New Hampshire Teacher Shortages and Recruitment Incentives outlines the problems the state needs to address

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It’s rocket science! Dartmouth professor developed rockets studying Saturday’s eclipse

Dartmouth Professor Kristina Lynch worked with her students to develop three rockets that NASA will launch Saturday to see how the eclipse impacts the ionosphere

Enrollment in Education Freedom Account program grows 40 percent

The controversial program now costs about $20 million and serves about 2.5 percent of the state's students.

Democrats in N.H. look to revive education bill based on illegal vote by GOP member

The lawmaker who kept his seat even though he moved to another district ‘directly caused’ the demise of a proposal sponsored by the Democrats, says the minority leader.

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Professor of banned books warns: It’s ‘dangerous’ not to read
Literary fiction offers an essential source of empathy, Franklin Pierce University professor Donna M. Decker noted as Banned Book Week began.

Bedford, N.H., officials conclude no state laws violated in photos taken of girls at high school
School officials in Bedford, N.H., say they concluded their investigation into allegations that boys took photos of girls without their knowledge and determined that no state laws were violated.

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The ‘anti woke’ legislation making K-12 teachers in New Hampshire nervous
“I don’t know how you can have a lesson on the Holocaust and genocide and the issue of racism can’t come up,” says a former social studies teacher.

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Bilingual classrooms coming to Manchester, N.H., as state touts education choice
The dual-language immersion program will be a first for New Hampshire. Its development is being supported by a $250,000 planning grant.

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SCOT LEHIGH

Asa Hutchinson is a serious, principled conservative, one whose focus is economic and fiscal issues, smaller government, and a traditional internationalist foreign policy.

New Hampshire, please consider Asa Hutchinson

The former Arkansas governor may need Granite State help to make the stage for the second GOP debate. 1:25 p.m.

COMMENTARY | WILL STEWART

A homeless person in Veteran’s Memorial Park on April 22, 2023, in Manchester, N.H.

Manchester needs a unified plan to functionally end homelessness

A mayoral candidate who is an alderman in Ward 2 says homelessness in Manchester is a humanitarian crisis — and should be treated as such. 3:14 p.m.

Around New England with Kevin Cullen

The Hannah Duston Monument, showing the colonial-era woman carrying the scalps of Native American children.

How to expand, rather than obliterate, history

The imposing 25-foot granite statue of Hannah Duston was erected in Boscawen in 1874, on the site where she became a folk hero for a daring escape from Native American captors nearly 200 years before. 5:18 p.m.

SCOT LEHIGH

A helicopter waterbomber dropped water onto the Cameron Bluffs wildfire near Port Alberni, British Columbia, Canada, on June 6.

Readers respond on climate change: We need action now

Yet some still insist it’s all a scam. 1:11 p.m.

David Daley

A clerk handed a ballot to a voter Nov. 8, 2022, in Lewiston, Maine. The state of Maine uses a ranked choice voting system for some of its election races.

Ranked choice voting deserves a place in presidential primaries

The current plurality system punishes voters and rewards candidates who have a fervent base and splintered opposition. 3:00 a.m.

CARINE HAJJAR

Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy talked to members of the media on Wednesday after the first debate of the GOP primary season hosted by Fox News in Milwaukee.

Why Vivek Ramaswamy is catching on in New Hampshire and beyond

Can he move away from Trump’s politics of retribution without moving away from Trump voters? 1:14 p.m.

IDEAS | DAVID SHRIBMAN

John Gilbert Winant photographed by Harris & Ewing photographers on Jan. 1, 1937, when he was chair of the Social Security Board.

America needs more politicians like John Gilbert Winant

The three-term Republican governor of NH, FDR appointee, and ambassador to the UK put country ahead of party and was the soul of integrity. Let’s hope his kind hasn’t been consigned to history. 3:00 a.m.

JEFF JACOBY

Ayotte isn’t wrong about New Hampshire and Massachusetts

There really are deep-rooted differences between the two states. 3:00 a.m.