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Posts tagged as “Common Core”

New Online Common Core Test Wastes More Teacher and Student Time

The Sioux Falls School District used children as unpaid guinea pigs this spring in its field test of the Smarter Balanced Assessment, the new statewide, online standardized test our children will take to measure their fulfillment of the Common Core…

Common Core: South Dakota Students Take Tests to Make Better Tests

Common Core wears me out. The 2014 Legislature has considered and killed five bills and three resolutions explicitly targeting Common Core for study, delay, or abolition.* Of three other bills discussing waiting periods and accountability for curriculum standards in general,…

SDGOP Leaders Ignore Platform, Collaborate with Dems to Support Common Core

The South Dakota House of Representatives defeated House Concurrent Resolution 1008 yesterday. After fierce debate, the House voted 35 to 31 against the following statement: NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, by the House of Representatives of the Eighty-Ninth Legislature of…

New York Teachers Union Doesn’t Really Denounce Common Core

I read the following lead and thought I'd have a bone to throw Rep. Jim Bolin and the anti-Common Core lobby: The board of the state's largest teachers' union voted unanimously Saturday to denounce the controversial Common Core standards and…

HB 1075 Subjects Multi-State School Standards to More Delay

Rep. Jim Bolin (R-16/Canton) is playing catch-up with Senator Ernie Otten (R-6/Tea) in fighting the Common Core school standards. Rep. Bolin vowed to lead the fight against Common Core this year, but Senator Otten launched three bills on the topic…