Took ya long enough, Jim! David Montgomery reports that Rep. Jim Bolin is abandoning his campaign to become School and Public Lands Commissioner to focus on fighting the Common Core education standards. Bolin emphasizes that taking up the Common Core…
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I was hoping last night's Common Core meeting in Sioux Falls would be a conservative grilling of the South Dakota leaders pushing the status quo practice of education reform churn. Instead, Secretary of Education Melody Schopp and paid Common Core…
The notably conservative Siouxland Republican Women are hosting a panel discussion on the Common Core education standards this evening in Sioux Falls (7 p.m., Good Samaritan Jerstad Center, admission $5 for members, $10 for the rest of us). The meeting…
Five weeks after mocking me for my willingness to reach across the aisle and assist South Dakota Tea Partiers in their crusade against Common Core, Pat Powers again addresses the political opposition to the newest wave of education policy busywork…
Common Core makes me queasy. Some conservative friends on Facebook feed my quease by forwarding a link to a study that says Common Core will cost $12.1 billion to implement. Holy cow! $12.1 billion?! For that price, you could just…
Mitchell Superintendent Joe Graves usually flacks for whatever the state wants. But at last night's Mitchell school board meeting, he threw arch-conservative opponents of the dreaded Common Core standards a bone: During the meeting’s public commentary segment, Mitchell resident Steve…
Fellow educator Leo Kallis and I have misgivings about South Dakota's focus on more standardized testing in its implementation of the Common Core standards. Josh Verges, education reporter for that Sioux Falls paper, notes that Kallis and I are wrong…
My potential allies at South Dakotans Against Common Core post this video by Chicago North Shore elementary school teacher Ellie Rubenstein. Amend that: former elementary school teacher Ellie Rubenstein. Mrs. Rubenstein posted her resignation to the Intertubes last week. She…