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…
Posts tagged as “standardized tests”
Parents don't seem to mind standardized tests, as long as the results only affect the teachers and schools. Make those tests count for their kids, put those tests in a position to keep their kids from getting into college, and…
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…
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…
The Sioux Falls school district just made a slam-dunk tech decision. They will outfit 17,500 grade 3-12 students with Google Chromebooks. These bare-bones laptops run nothing but 'Net. Communicate with webmail, create and collaborate on documents on Google Docs or…
Joel Rosenthal wakes us up with some vague griping and moaning about the need for education reform. Rosenthal acknowledges South Dakotans' rejection last November of Initiated Measure 15 and Referred Law 16 as signals that we think our K-12 system…
Governor Daugaard and certain Republican legislators like to scapegoat teachers. Daugaard and friends say we teachers aren't working hard enough. We need both incentives and kick in our collective bargaining pants to improve our performance. Governor Daugaard and his legislative…
In support of Referred Law 16, Governor Daugaard has been able to recruit one teacher with ties to the education-privatization movement (Milken has pushed privatization of education in Israel, too) and one administrator who resorts to vague anti-teacher generalizations. In…