The Crookston Times – Dave Kolpack
“North Dakota’s million-dollar investment in a national education initiative will help the state move up the ladder in the number of U.S. students who take advanced placement classes, the state’s superintendent of public instruction said Wednesday. Kirsten Baesler was in Fargo to observe about 50 teachers in the middle of a four-day seminar sponsored by the non-profit National Math and Science Institute, or NMSI, which is working with the state to raise the rigor of math, science and English coursework. Baesler said she discovered shortly after taking office in January 2013 that North Dakota ranked behind every state and Washington, D.C., in the number of students who were taking college-level classwork, considered to be a barometer for success in college or the workplace.”(more)