Hillsdale College Writes Worse Math Standards for South Dakota Schools

After fights over social studies standards, activists come for math

Susan Gilkerson, a math teacher and school bus driver, stood before a South Dakota education board and issued a warning. The proposed math standards the board was considering — just 36 pages, less than half the length of standards adopted in 2018 — were so scant that teachers won’t know how to use them, Gilkerson said. The existing standards detail not just which math concepts should be taught but also the specific skills students need to demons…

Conservative Education Activists Have a New Target: Math Class

This story was first published by Hechinger Report. It also appeared in Chalkbeat and South Dakota Searchlight. Susan Gilkerson, a math teacher and school bus…

Hillsdale College Writes Worse Math Standards for South Dakota Schools

I mentioned last September that the proposed K-12 math standards currently under review in South Dakota are a second push by conservative activists to force public education into a mold written by Hillsdale College. With just one public hearing left (Rapid City, May 4) before the Board of Education Standards rubber-stamps this politically biased outsider document, The Hechinger Report picks up on that theme of conservative schemers putting polit…