South Dakota high school students as a group consistently post better-than-average standardized test scores. But, like the Governor who appoints them, the members of the South Dakota Board of Regents aren't satisfied with those increasing scores. At their Vermillion meeting…
Posts tagged as “standardized tests”
The state Department of Education has posted average ACT scores for South Dakota school districts during last school year. We only get data for schools with ten or more takers, to avoid possibly tying actual scores with individual students. Out…
I've tried to explain to Governor Dennis Daugaard that the fact that South Dakota teachers and students have managed to maintain consistent, better-than-average student achievement even as schools are asked to do more work is pretty impressive. Obviously the Governor…
In a Facebook post, Rep. Rev. Steve Hickey (R-9/Sioux Falls) got me thinking about the possible impact of the Chicago teachers' strike on the campaign to overturn Governor Dennis Daugaard's terrible, horrible, no-good education reform law (Referred Law 16 on…
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…
The Teacher Evaluation Work Group created by Governor Dennis Daugaard's not-yet enacted education reform bill met last week, June 12 and 13, in Pierre. In one of the few positive signs to come out of the tar and feathers of…
What crisis is Governor Daugaard trying to fix with HB 1234? Blog madman and metaphorist Larry Kurtz posts a trivioid finding South Dakota students earn the eighth-best SAT and ACT scores in the country. Back in 1999, we were twelfth…