Various South Dakota Tea Party folks (bothersomely anonymous on their website and Facebook page, so I can only assume they are South Dakotans) are raising fuss and feathers over the Common Core standards. I wouldn't mind if they got some…
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In response to my post yesterday on the state's plan to water down K-12 education by striking the speech requirement from South Dakota's high school graduation rules, an eager reader points me toward a survey distributed by the Department of…
I am not John Birch. I do not oppose the Common Core State Standards out of fear of data-mining and liberal indoctrination. I do, however, oppose the Common Core State Standards as a tremendous waste of educators' time and effort.…
Never do I feel the urge to pronounce potpourri as poopery more strongly than when I use it in conjunction with the word conservative... My conservative friends are up to various forms of monkey business this week: The Republican Liberty…
Common Core curriculum standards are not a Marxist conspiracy. But the more I learn about them, the less I'm impressed, and the more willing I am to let those who do smell conspiracy wage their campaigns against Common Core. South…
Bob Ellis's American Carrion reprints the report that South Dakota's K-12 teachers continue to do better than the national average when it comes to preparing their students to succeed at college, as evidenced by their students' above-average ACT scores. Two…