January 29, 2015 With a vote of 19-15, the Senate concurred with HCR 1003 – House Concurrent Resolution 1003, Urging Congress and the President of the United States to Abolish the United States Department of Education. Here is the text of the Resolution. A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION, Urging Congress and the President of the Unites States to…
January 27, 2015 – The House of Representatives voted to agree with Representative’s Jim Bolin’s House Concurrent Resolution 1003, Urging Congress and the President of the United States to Abolish the United States Department of Education. Here is the text of the Resolution. A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION, Urging Congress and the President of the Unites States to abolish…
Representative Steve Westra, District 13, has created a group South Dakotans for Jeb Bush on Facebook. He has also started a petition of support to be sent to Jeb Bush at the end of February. From the Argus Leader, “South Dakota has the opportunity to create one of the first grassroots efforts to encourage Jeb…
I am posting this video not because it is about Common Core. I am posting this video because this man is a teacher in the true sense of what education in America is meant to be. There are thousands of teachers just like this one, across this nation, who are the epitome of a teacher. David…
The Common Core Math Standards mirror the California Math Standards adopted by California in 1992. The problem with the standards was the overemphasis on pedagogy (instructional methods) at the expense of mathematical content knowledge. (link1) Here are some facts about what happened in California. From: A Brief History of American K-12 Mathematics Education in the…
On November 17, 2014, The South Dakota Board of Education held the second of four public hearings regarding the adoption of proposed K-12 Science standards for South Dakota. At this hearing, Senator Phil Jensen, Dist. 33 testified regarding his finding of the South Dakota Science Standards being the Next Generation Science Standards. You can listen to…
On November 17, 2014, the South Dakota Board of Education held the second of four public hearing regarding the proposed K-12 content standards for Science, Technical Education, and Fine Arts.This meeting was also the first of four public hearings regarding new Social Studies Standards. At the September 2014 meeting, I testified regarding the science standards…
On Monday, September 15, 2014, the South Dakota Board of Education held the first of four public hearings on adopting new standards in Science, Technical Education and Fine Arts. You can read what I testified at the September 2014 meeting here. I believe that adoption of these standards is in possible violation of SB 64. (Link…
The South Dakota Board of Education is holding the November meeting on Monday, November 17, 2014, This meeting will be at the MacKay Building, First Floor, Library Commons Area, 800 Governors Drive, Pierre, South Dakota in Pierre, SD. This meeting will include the required public hearings for four new sets of content standards. Science, Fine Arts, Technology…
Bob Kellogg has written about the intrusive middle school behavioral surveys happening in South Dakota. Here are a few excerpts. The survey wants to know a lot about students’ lives: drug use, drinking habits and, of course, their sexual habits, as well among other things. When a couple of concerned moms went to the school…
South Dakotans Against Common Core 