Representative Scott Odenbach’s (R-31/Spearfish) attempt to create his own little Hillsdale College at Black Hills State University failed in the House yesterday, not because a…
Posts tagged as “social studies”
Education Department Rewrites Social Studies Standards Again; Board Must Delay Final Vote Until August
By Cory Allen Heidelberger on 2023-01-20
Education Secretary Joe Graves was on the news spinning our attention away from the broken process that produced the broken draft K-12 social studies standards…
Hillsdale Standards Crowd South Dakota Agriculture Out of Fourth-Grade Social Studies
By Cory Allen Heidelberger on 2022-11-04
The Board of Education Standards will hold the second of four required public hearings on Monday, November 21, at the Sioux Falls Convention Center on…
Hillsdale Standards Complicate Teachers’ Lives with Establishment Clause Worries
By Cory Allen Heidelberger on 2022-09-18
The ACLU’s concerns about the Hillsdale social studies curriculum standards go beyond the exclusion of American Indians from K-12 content and consultation. The ACLU also…
Teachers’ Feedback on Hillsdale Standards: 10 Yea, 4 Meh, 230+ Nay.
By Cory Allen Heidelberger on 2022-09-17
Yesterday was the deadline for submitting written comment on the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad Hillsdale K-12 social studies curriculum standards for consideration at Monday’s hearing…
Jeff Struwe: Hillsdale Standards “Truly Magnificent and Well Researched”
By Cory Allen Heidelberger on 2022-09-17
On Thursday I wrote that the fundamental flaw in the proposed social standards that conservative Hillsdale College and Governor Kristi Noem want to impose on…
Radicals, Roots, and Anchor Standards: What’s Really Wrong with Hillsdale’s Approach to South Dakota Social Studies
By Cory Allen Heidelberger on 2022-09-15
Hat tip to Pete Struwe, 39 years later. The word radical comes from the Latin root radix, which itself means root. Radix gives us radish, that root some…
Morrisey Includes Conflicting Descriptions of Civilization in Proposed K-12 Social Studies Standards
By Cory Allen Heidelberger on 2022-08-19
The proposed K-12 social studies curriculum standards developed by Hillsdale College emeritus professor William Morrisey and released for public review Monday include this little nugget for…
Proposed Social Studies Standards View History as One Darn Thing After Another, Deny Merits of Teaching Relevance Through Themes
By Cory Allen Heidelberger on 2022-08-16
The proposed social studies standards that Governor Kristi Noem commissioned Hillsdale College to write for South Dakota’s K-12 schools include ten “Guiding Principles for High Quality…
Education Dept. Admits Governor Noem Picked the Rubber-Stampers for the Hillsdale Social Studies Standards
By Cory Allen Heidelberger on 2022-04-28
On Tuesday, I posted an email from the Governor’s Office showing that applicants for the new K-12 social studies standards revision commission were interviewed by…