Some of my teacher friends are tweeting from the Technology & Innovation in Education (TIE) conference in Rapid City. Yesterday conference attendee Sandy Arsenault tweeted Secretary of…
Tag: education
Why go to Mars when you can teach music in Groton? School superintendents Joe Schwan of Groton and Michael Kroll of Warner take to the Aberdeen…
South Dakota’s school and public libraries are looking for new vendors for their online catalog services. Since before the Internet, the South Dakota Library Network provided that…
Yesterday’s local elections put a little extra spring in my step. I told folks in Brookings that they should vote for my friend Scott Meyer, and they…
KELO-TV gets some SDSU education majors to say what I’ve been saying all along: all the scholarships and incentives the state has tried to cobble together…
Even in Sioux Falls, one of the best-paying school districts in South Dakota, the three school board candidates say they want to pay their teachers more. Says challenger…
Brown County’s emergency management director is feeling swamped. Scott Meints told the county commission yesterday that he and his sole staffer, Patti Woods, are putting…
In South Dakota, when our political leaders talk about giving young workers an opportunity, they mean, “Cut their pay a dollar, and let them be…
Among other items on the South Dakota Board of Regents’ agenda last week was a report on teacher education. The Regents learned that… Out of…
While the Blue Ribbon Task Force on Teachers and Students gears up to reinvent the wheel, Ellendale (ND) superintendent Jeff Fastnacht reminds us of the main cause of…