Hey, noble readers! Come vote in the latest Madville Times poll on perhaps the biggest policy issue facing the 2012 South Dakota Legislature: how should we reinvest in education? Governor Dennis Daugaard says we have $15 million to add to…
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Randall Beck is jerking my chain. He thinks Governor Daugaard gets points for effort on his counterproductive merit-bonus plan, and teachers shouldn't complain unless they can offer a counterproposal: Daugaard's plan may be flat wrong on some points. But it's…
Thar she blows! House Bill 1234 puts Governor Dennis Daugaard's really bad education reform ideas on paper for the South Dakota Legislature to debate and (please, please, please) kill. The details: $3980 bonus to every high school and middle school…
I know Bryan Aukerman. He's a good teacher, and a good coach. And if Governor Daugaard has his way with our public school system, he'll drive Aukerman and his talents out of South Dakota: I'm a young teacher in the…
In selling his merit bonus plan and other plans to hobble help public education, Governor Dennis Daugaard has been touting his statistics on employment in our public K-12 public school system: In 1971, South Dakota had 173,006 students, 8,452 certified…
A key component of Governor Daugaard's education reform plan is the Charlotte Danielson Framework for Teaching. Governor Daugaard plans to spend millions to train educators in the Danielson framework, then require school districts statewide to use that framework in evaluating…
...at least he did in 2010: Leadership is not about mandates and it is not about a top-down approach. A good leader is first a good listener. Together, we will agree upon our common goals and develop new approaches to…
Chuck Clement, Vince Schaefer, and Sharon Knowlton make themselves useful and help me deflate Governor Dennis Daugaard's nonsense. A cornerstone of Governor Daugaard's proposal to impose more testing, pit teachers against each other in competition for merit bonuses, and eliminate…