December 13, 2021

Project AIM: Q& A with SNHU Professor Lowell Matthews

December 13, 2021

Through Project AIM, Dr. Lowell C. Matthews is looking to provide opportunities to the forgotten.

The program offers incarcerated learners an “educational pathway,” that will not only help them to obtain the skills they need to become integrated and productive members of society, but college credits that can lead to an undergraduate degree from Southern New Hampshire University.

Melanie Plenda

December 13, 2021

The part of incarceration that mattered was the rehabilitation

Melanie Plenda

December 13, 2021

The part of incarceration that mattered was the rehabilitation

Imagine walking into a secured prison yard. One so secured with the walls so high that when you look up, all you see is the sky. You go back to your cell. It’s so loud and the potential for violence so ripe, you’re always on high alert. It’s easy to succumb to that culture. How do you cope? How do you pass the time in a place like that?

Help us tell the story

As we continue our examination of education and equity in New Hampshire, the Granite State News Collaborative and its partners would love your help. We want the community to drive our work.

We’re forming a private Facebook group called Teachers Off the Record, a space for educators and journalists to discuss what’s happening in New Hampshire’s schools.

We’re also hosting a variety of listening sessions with educational professionals and others with a stake in the Granite State’s educational system.

For students, we've developed an informal survey to gather ideas about what's working and what isn't in New Hampshire classrooms.

As part of the series, we will be releasing studies and data that we’ve gathered about education in New Hampshire. We’ve created a Data Library to make this information easier to share and understand. Each piece of information comes with details about where it comes from and what we did with it.

We hope that these efforts will inform our reporting and help us understand what families, students and schools want from education in the Granite State — and what they need to make the system work for everyone.

To become involved in guiding our coverage of education inequity in New Hampshire, contact Granite State News Collaborative engagement reporter Nour Habib at nour.habib@collaborativenh.org.