Durham, N.H. — Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson polished his outsider's credentials at a packed meeting here Wednesday, criticizing American politics and suggesting he would take on the establishment should he win the nation's top office.
"We must remember that we are not Democrats or Republicans first, we are Americans first," the retired neurosurgeon said, drawing applause from a generally enthusiastic crowd in a University of New Hampshire ballroom.
STATE HOUSE — Education Secretary James Peyser wrote an op-ed in September laying out the choice the state Board of Education faces in November in choosing between keeping the state's MCAS exam or adopting a new student assessment known as PARCC.
But new research suggests a third option: continuing with the current MCAS exam but setting a higher score threshold in math to ensure that more students are ready for the rigors of college.
