Recently added articles from New Hampshire Business Review:
Testing, testing: can standardized exams adequately assess writing skills!(EDUCATION)
Sep 25, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Supporters and opponents of standardized testing in schools agree on at least one thing--that the requirement has changed public education. Disinterested students skip through questions with little wonder about the relevance or consequences of their ...
Written exam.(New Hampshire students )(Brief article)
Sep 25, 2009 ... New Hampshire students in grades 3, 8 and 11 are tested annually in October in alternating writing genres. They are provided with either a narrative text or a series of related facts and are then asked to write a constructive response. For instance, students in the 11th grade ...
NHBR celebrates business excellence.(Brief article)
Sep 25, 2009 ... The achievements of several impressive New Hampshire businesspeople will be celebrated at NHBR's seventh annual Business Excellence Awards festivities. The evening--which begins at 5 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 7, at The Event Center at C.R. Sparks in Bedford--will include a champagne ...
Demographics fuel health care's growth: 65+ population may grow to 29% by 2030.(N.H.'S HEALTH ECONOMY)(Report)(Statistical data)
Sep 25, 2009; ... Although those working in the private healthcare sector make up one of the largest groups of workers in New Hampshire, studies show that there still may not be enough caregivers in the coming decades. The New Hampshire Center for Public Policy Studies recently released its 2009 ...
Bus company exec Jim Jalbert.(Q&A: INTERVIEW)(Interview)
Sep 25, 2009; ... Jim Jalbert says he's "very passionate about transportation and bus." It would be hard to argue that point. Jalbert, who's president of the Portsmouth-based bus line C&J, also is co-owner of Boston Express, the bus company C&J operates with Concord Coach Lines. Boston Express provides ...