Yesterday I wrote about a situation in northwest North Dakota in which the Tioga Tribune published a false statement regarding the Common Core State Standards. It’s not entirely uncommon for news publications to get things wrong but refusing to correct [read more…]
Under some circumstances, if you tell a lie enough, the uninformed will eventually come to accept it as truth. A recent article in the Tioga Tribune proves that this is indeed the case when it comes to North Dakota and [read more…]
Just over three weeks ago, North Dakota’s Department of Public Instruction (DPI) Superintendent, Kirsten Baesler, announced her intentions to seek reelection. Having first been elected in 2012 by a margin of nearly 11%, and then again in 2016 by about [read more…]
State Auditor Josh Gallion’s office released an Audit Report yesterday of the North Dakota Highway Patrol from July 2016 to June 2018. According to a press release: “… the agency was not following internal policies for school bus inspections, was inaccurately [read more…]
Two words are often found in debate regarding education, and we hear them most from Republicans— local control. It’s the argument — and the right one I might add — that so long as we’re going to have an education [read more…]
Long-time followers of The Minuteman know that I’ve had issues in the past with our state’s Superintendent of Public Instruction, Kirsten Baesler. Whether it was things like her outright deception regarding the Common Core State Standards and the delayed process [read more…]
The North Dakota Department of Public Instruction (DPI) recently ran a story regarding the rollout of their new education dashboard. The title boasts of it as a “New Tool Launched to Provide More Transparency in School Performance”. State Superintendent Kirsten [read more…]
Nearly three months past their own “approximate” deadline, the North Dakota Department of Public Instruction has finally decided on a testing vendor for the state assessments in Math and English. They did so with a “Notice of Intent to Award” [read more…]
Plagiarism– Noun. The practice of taking someone else’s work or ideas and passing them off as one’s own. If your education was anything like mine, you were taught from grade school through college that plagiarism is an unacceptable [read more…]
Just over two weeks ago, Governor Doug Burgum enjoyed a visit from his old Microsoft friend– billionaire Bill Gates. According to Valley News Live, Burgum and Gates had a “wide-ranging conversation on the important issues facing people in North Dakota [read more…]
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