The New Hampshire Department of Education released the 2017 Smarter Balanced Assessment results earlier this week. Like many other Common Core (aka College and Career Readiness Standards) states, proficiency scores slipped in English and Math across grades three through eight.

Elementary students show only 58% are proficient or above (level 3 and 4) in English, down 1.7% from 2016. In math, only 49% are proficient or above, with a similar decline of 1.7% from last year. |Keep Reading at School Choice for NH