While circulating petitions to refer HB 1234, the Governor's education reform plan, to a public vote, I've heard more than one neighbor speak of the need to make public education operate more like a business. Rep. Fred Romkema, one of…
Posts tagged as “standardized tests”
The nice folks at United Opt Out National are fighting corporate education "reform" by advocating a boycott of Pearson Education, Inc. United Opt Out National draws connections between Pearson and the pro-corporate, anti-public-education agenda of the American Legislative Exchange Council:…
Bruce D. Baker of the National Education Policy Center writes about what he calls the "Toxic Trifecta" of education reforms involving high-stakes teacher evaluation systems. The items on the list should sound awfully familiar to South Dakotans debating Governor Dennis…
Fellow educator and blogger LK at The Displaced Plainsman reads with proper disgust this account of a New York State standardized test that completely misses the point of a silly Daniel Pinkwater story. Pinkwater calls the now infamous pineapple question…
An eager reader shares Florida scientist and science popularizer Rob Krampf's discussion of errors in the Science FCAT, a standardized test administered to all Florida fifth and eighth graders. The FCAT is high-stakes testing of the sort that South Dakota…
Troy Jones gives the best defense he can of Governor Daugaard's destructive education reform proposals. Jones conveniently leaves out a major component of the much-reviled House Bill 1234: increased standardized testing. The Governor has said he wants our kids to…
This guest column comes from Erika Lapour, a Sioux Falls parent who has issues with the increased standardized testing that will be an integral part of the education reforms proposed and signed into law by Governor Dennis Daugaard in House…
Dr. Newquist says read this article, and we should! This example from Washington, D.C., probably isn't enough to get Governor Daugaard to see the error of his ways and veto HB 1234, his signature education reform legislation. But it seems…