PIERRE, (KCCR) — In a report on district achievement in the Pierre School District presented to the Pierre School Board, the District’s three elementary schools, middle and high school scored high in most areas compared to similar sized schools in South Dakota. Long-time educator and board member Dan Cronin says the state website containing testing scores only gives a small window into any schools achievement…
Cronin says while curriculum is important it’s the teachers, not the text that moves the needle for achievement…
Cronin says National Assessment of Educational Progress test results should be looked at with caution…
Director of Education Troy Wiebe says there is a lot of hard work by teachers that gets overseen by some testing scores.
