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…]
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…]
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…]
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