An eager reader helps me bounce not too far from Bartlett and Howie’s fact-free Christian exceptionalism to this Slate article about the willful ignorance of creationists. Columnist…
Tag: education
Uh oh—I’m going to have to get cranky with my anti-Common Core friends for trying to crash the Blue Ribbon party. South Dakotans Against Common…
Pennington County is receiving a $150,000 grant through the MacArthur Foundation’s Safety and Justice Challenge to develop a plan reduce its prison population. The county is one of…
Governor Dennis Daugaard’s office has provided some clarification on the openness of the upcoming meetings of the Blue Ribbon Task Force on Teachers and Students (BluRTFTS).…
We all know Mike Rounds was lying when he said he would eliminate the Department of Education. But If our freshman Senator wanted to at least…
Dr. Alan Neville, education department chair at Northern State University, says the Governor’s Blue Ribbon Task Force on Teachers and Students is rigged: …the composition…
Onward Yankton is at the halfway point of its 100-day quest for the next great idea for our first capital city. Citizens have already submitted dozens of…
Former legislator and blog sponsor Stan Adelstein is urging his Rapid City neighbors to vote yes on the school opt-out on the June 2 ballot. Without the…
We’ve plowed ground like this before, but the end of the school year brings my happy household another reminder of the porous separation of church and…
Last month the Governor’s office gave us the towns and dates for meetings of the Blue Ribbon Task Force on Teachers and Students (BluRTFTS). Now we get…