The South Dakota Legislature already has three mostly futile bills before it questioning or delaying the implementation of the Common Core curriculum standards. Senate Bill 64 in particular prohibits the state Board of Education from implementing Common Core or any…
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Now that the Legislature is in session, the time-wasting machine is kicking into gear. Senate Bills 62, 63, and 64 start what I feared: a cycle of time wasted misfocused on analyzing the Common Core standards instead of implementing real…
The South Dakota Chamber of Commerce is throwing its weight behind the Common Core education standards: David Owen, the chamber’s president, said today that he’ll officially announce the endorsement on Friday morning. "We believe we need rigorous standards," Owen said.…
Bob Mercer says that Common Core faces some serious opponents. The Concerned Women for America and the South Dakota Family Policy Council will, alas, probably waste our legislative and electoral time with unserious expostulations that Common Core threatens Christianity with…
Let's take a double dip on Common Core this morning! Teacher Michael Larson thinks it will take five years for textbook and testing companies to start marketing a replacement for Common Core. If we're lucky, that replacement will include a…
If I were Catholic, I'd support the Affordable Care Act and the expansion of Medicaid and reject the tyranny of consumerism. I'd also say the Common Core standards are bad for Catholic education. Such is the argument 132 Catholic scholars…
Under yesterday's story on the disagreement between Governor Dennis Daugaard and the Associated School Boards of South Dakota on how much we need to spend on quality K-12 education, Watertown school board member Fred Deutsch notes that the ASBSD approved…
For those of you concerned that the Common Core standards are being implemented in our schools secretly, without opportunities for public input, there are at least three public events this week at which administrators and state officials will come tell…