Last week North Dakota’s Superintendent of Public Instruction Kirsten Baesler and other leaders in education met to discuss the hot button topic of school safety. The purpose of the meeting was to “find common ground on a school safety agenda [read more…]
You probably didn’t know it (I didn’t), but January 21st – 27th was School Choice Week in North Dakota. Governor Doug Burgum declared it such via proclamation. It paralleled National School Choice Week as set via proclamation by President Donald [read more…]
Vaccines are increasingly controversial. Like most topics, you’ll find people coming from various angles on the issue. Some are staunchly pro-vaccine. Others are staunchly against them. And then there’s those that fall somewhere in between. It’s unfortunate that discussion of [read more…]
Photo Credit: Dale Wetzel, AP Al Jaeger has been Secretary of State for North Dakota since 1992 . But his 25 years in office is now set to be challenged by a man that was just 15 years old when [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…]
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…]
North Dakota’s Department of Public Instruction (DPI) received a black eye of sorts late last month from an education think tank known as the Thomas B. Fordham Institute. In ranking the 17 ESSA plans submitted so far by 16 states [read more…]
Last month I wrote about the fact that the Department of Public Instruction (DPI) had gone past their own estimated deadline of July 7th for awarding the winning bid to the vendor that will provide state assessments for Math and [read more…]
If you haven’t heard, Governor Doug Burgum skipped Thursday’s Governor’s Innovative Education Summit in Bismarck. Why? Because he was invited to meet with President Donald Trump and other leaders at the White House on the issue of infrastructure. Because of [read more…]
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