Nine days ago we published an article expressing serious concerns over House Bill 1104. In a nutshell, this bill proposed to give additional authority to the Superintendent of Public Instruction over all licensed early childcare providers when it comes to [read more…]
At the end of October, I wrote about the Department of Public Instruction (DPI) adopting the “North Dakota Learning Standards Birth to Kindergarten 2018 Edition“. Yes, you read it right— birth to Kindergarten. The standards are the result of a joint [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…]
North Dakota is consistently ranked among the most restrictive states in the nation when it comes to homeschooling. In fact, it wasn’t even legal until 1989. Since that time, things have certainly improved, but as someone who is an advocate [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…]
Last month North Dakotans were invited by our Department of Public Instruction Superintendent, Kirsten Baesler, to attend one of six “listening forums” held across the state on school safety. The meetings were “organized by the Department of Public Instruction, the [read more…]
One of the first articles we published on The Minuteman Blog was called “Stop Raising the Government’s Kids”. I pointed out in that article that the most formative years of a child’s life will have been significantly impacted by the [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…]
One of the problems often found in public education is the relationship between schools and the parents of the students they are supposed to be educating. The stress found in these relationships are – at times – more a result [read more…]
With schools beginning their 2017 – 2018 school years across the state, I wanted to take just a brief moment to remind interested parents about the new opt out forms for state testing. I’ve seen a few inquiries floating around [read more…]
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