If the Legislature is serious about micromanaging the Department of Education to produce better learning outcomes, perhaps they’ll follow Italy’s lead and require our public…
Tag: education
In good news, Worthington voters finally overcame some strong and self-destructive anti-immigrant sentiment to approve spending $38.7 million to build the classroom space necessary to…
A motivational speaker, an educational technologist, and a social justice warrior against sex-trafficking walk into a bar… and Kristi Noem calls it a conference. How…
The Legislature is showing no mercy to Kristi Noem and Ben Jones. In apparent recognition of the Governor and her Education Secretary’s failure to drive…
I can finally put my SDSU math major and teaching degree to their fullest use: helping my eighth-grader with her algebra homework. But I also…
In today’s random reading, I bump into Neil Gaiman’s explanation of why the Chinese Communist Party started encouraging young people to read science fiction and…
Vaping is apparently such a burning problem among students that we need a whole town hall on the issue. But “vaping sensors” in the bathroom?…
Lori Walsh let Speaker Steven Haugaard clutter the airwaves with his anti-child, anti-education, anti-woman, anti-family, anti-worker hyperbole against public preschool without much challenge yesterday. Speaker…
Governor Kristi Noem celebrates free college—or, in this case, free post-secondary vocational training—for 391 new recipients of the Build Dakota Scholarship: Governor Kristi Noem today…
John Tsitrian reported back in April on the Congressional Joint Economic Committee’s study of brain drain, which showed that South Dakota is worse at keeping…