Marketplace last night broadcast an interesting piece on the cost of building the Common Core standardized tests, the first round of which our kids will soon be taking: That kind of test is more expensive, says Scott Marion, associate director…
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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…
The Pierre Capital Journal makes available this fun map of South Dakota school districts and their average teacher pay and ACT scores: Naturally, that map got me wondering: do we find any correlation between the two figures featured here, teacher…
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,…
The South Dakota House saw two smokeout bids yesterday. (Alas, if it had been a smokeout of hoghouse bills, we'd be talking bacon!) The smokeout is a procedure by which a third of a full chamber (24 in the House)…
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…
Folks are all a-bubble about Common Core. But how'd the last big education reform wave, No Child Left Behind, work out? President George W. Bush signed that bipartisan education reform into law in 2002. We spent a good decade rewriting…
An eager reader submits this report on eighth-grade math scores. Researchers at the National Center for Education Statistics converted scores on the NAEP, a test commonly used in the United States, to align with the TIMSS, a test more commonly…