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…]
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…]
On September 12th of last year, Superintendent of Public Instruction Kirsten Baesler notified the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium that North Dakota would be withdrawing from the SBAC effective June 30, 2017. This decision meant that the state would have an [read more…]
"An analysis of the Draft 2 Standards in comparison with the Common Core show us that all references to the Common Core State Standards have been dropped from the introductory pages to the Draft 2 Standards. Yet, the standards themselves [read more…]
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