Last fall, after the Department of Education’s heavy-handed whitewashing of K-12 social studies standards drafted by a 46-member volunteer workgroup, and after Governor Kristi Noem…
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Even though Russian political science student Daria Tsvetkova is studying on an exchange program in wonderfully free Spearfish, she still has to watch what she…
The fix is in for South Dakota’s social studies standards. After rejecting last fall a 46-person workgroup’s draft of K-12 social studies standards that gave…
Yes! Finally! Kurt Russell is Teacher of the Year! No, no—America’s Teacher of the Year is Kurt Russell, history teacher at Oberlin High School in…
What does a business degree get for a business? Not much besides a shift of wealth from workers: in both the US and Denmark, when…
Governor Kristi Noem’s vaunted Executive Order 2022-02 only pretends to ban critical race theory from K-12 schools. The order won’t do what she’ll tell her…
When Governor Kristi Noem announced to small gathering in Mobridge yesterday that she planned to issue an executive order to ban critical race theory in…
All those people Kristi Noem says she’s getting to move to South Dakota must be either lazy or not terribly fond of education. South Dakota’s K-12…
Governor Kristi Noem continues to lie about “critical race theory” to busk for national attention. But after seeing her two bills peddling this disingenuous thought…
Senate State Affairs spared schools a little bit of foolishness last week, voting to kill Representative Phil Jensen’s House Bill 1198, which would have required…