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Language Arts:
Board of Education approves alternate content standards
At its November meeting, the South Dakota
Board of Education approved new Language Arts Alternate Content
Standards and Achievement Descriptors. A group of 24 general and
special education teachers met in Pierre this summer to write
these standards.
Because the general Language Arts Standards were revised during
the 2006-07 school year, an update of the Reading Alternate
Content Standards was necessary. In addition, alternate content
standards for Writing and Speaking, and Viewing and Listening
were written for the first time.
The new Language Arts Alternate Content Standards will be
implemented in the 2008-09 school year.
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Sherry
Crofut, an 8th-grade teacher at North Middle School in Rapid
City, got a $25,000 surprise recently. Gov. Mike Rounds and
Education Secretary Rick Melmer presented Crofut with a Milken
Family Foundation National Educator Award during a school
assembly on Oct. 30. As part of the award, Crofut receives
$25,000 in cash. 