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February 5, 2023

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Tioga Tribune Refuses to Correct False Statement Affecting School Board Candidate

April 27, 2022 T. Arthur Mason

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…]

North Dakota

Local Paper Spreads Baesler’s Lie, Makes School Board Candidate Look Bad

April 26, 2022 T. Arthur Mason

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…]

Education

Baesler’s Rocky Past, Alcohol Use, & Poor Record as DPI Superintendent

February 29, 2020 T. Arthur Mason

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…]

Education

DPI Caught in a Lie, but Spokesman Calls State Auditor “Unprofessional”

June 7, 2019 T. Arthur Mason

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…]

Education

Education Bill to Test How Much ND Legislature Believes in Local Control

January 12, 2019 T. Arthur Mason

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…]

North Dakota

Are DPI’s Learning Standards for Birth to Kindergarten Necessary?

October 26, 2018 T. Arthur Mason

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…]

Education

Accountability: Have You Looked at DPI’s New Education Dashboard?

May 11, 2018 T. Arthur Mason

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…]

Education

EXPOSED: DPI Awards Bid for Testing to Existing Common Core Vendor

October 4, 2017 T. Arthur Mason

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…]

North Dakota

North Dakota’s Math & English Standards are the Result of Plagiarism

September 12, 2017 T. Arthur Mason

    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…]

Education

Why Some NDtans Don’t Like Burgum’s Cozy Friendship with Bill Gates

August 9, 2017 T. Arthur Mason

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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