Our Catholic friends at Aberdeen Roncalli appear to have swapped places with Aberdeen Central for leadership in ACT scores. While Central’s Class of 2017 chose…
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Aberdeen Central’s 2017 graduates knocked down our local ACT average. Aberdeen’s composite ACT score dropped from a 22.0 average in 2016 to 21.2 in 2017.…
If you put any stock in standardized tests, the latest ACT scores suggest South Dakota kids got dumber while nationwide kids got smarter. South Dakota…
The Department of Education provides this awesome chart plotting the English and math proficiency rates of every school—not just school district, but school building—that had…
Last month, Senator Jason Frerichs (D-1/Wilmot) said he wanted to introduce a “stay in South Dakota” requirement for the Opportunity Scholarship, the $6,500 we offer…
I love a good debate with Senator Jim Bolin. But I can’t fight him on Senate Bill 85, his effort to provide parents and students with…
Hillary Clinton spoke to the national meeting of the American Federation of Teachers in Minneapolis yesterday. She appears not to have tripped any plagiarism alarms, but…
Sioux Falls elementary teacher Jennifer Egstad puts the Common Core tests in proper perspective for her third-grade Spanish immersion students: The “Smarter Balanced” standardized tests…
The Thomas More Law Center of Michigan is taking South Dakota to court over Common Core. Taking the same tack as a lawsuit that won in district…