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Reducing College Costs Is Crucial for Families
I recently attended a lecture where a gentleman discussed how my kids could obtain a college degree by age 18 at a fraction of the cost ...
Let’s Reimburse Higher Ed for Remediation Costs
The good news: Oklahoma schools are teaching phonics. The bad news: It’s in college. Students at Tulsa Community College, for example...
OCPA Research Fellow Says College Soon Will Look Very Different
In spite of all the alarm over rising costs and excessive borrowing for college, one Oklahoman is confident that college will be far les...
Parents Have the Right, Responsibility to Choose Best Schools
In a now-infamous MSNBC commercial, TV host Melissa Harris-Perry blithely and unblinkingly suggests taxpayers don’t spend enough on publ...
Could International Homeschooling Case Have Implications for Oklahoma?
Even as Oklahoma legislators continually affirm the right and responsibility of parents to educate their children, the Obama administrat...
Give Mothers Their Druthers (and Their Money)
In their book The Flipside of Feminism: What Conservative Women Know—And Men Can’t Say, Phyllis Schlafly and Suzanne Venker point out th...
Is Oklahoma’s Preschool Program ‘High-Quality’?
During his State of the Union address last month, President Barack Obama proposed making “high-quality preschool available to every sing...
Special-Needs Students Yearn for Acceptance
Two of my children once attended a small private school in a town where we had just moved. Early in the fall semester, another new kid a...
Affordable Higher Education Is on the Horizon
Conversations on how to make college affordable are endless. Technically, we know how to significantly lower costs and improve quality, ...
Education Savings Accounts Would Empower Parents
Imagine a state where a mom using Medicaid could only take her daughter to a government hospital, or where child care subsidies from the...
Parents Responsible for Johnny’s Education
Who’s responsible if Johnny’s education isn’t up to snuff? Certainly schools must accept their share of the blame for the well-document...
More Spending Won’t Boost Report Cards
Oklahoma’s new school report cards are much in the news lately, and there’s been no shortage of complaining about them from some of our ...
A Better Way to Keep Oklahoma Students Safe at School
Most parents and policymakers believe their public schools are safe. They might change their minds if actual safety statistics were more...
Safety Opportunity Scholarships Envisioned for Students in Unsafe P...
A leading school choice advocate is encouraging Oklahoma state lawmakers to look at model legislation creating Safety Opportunity Schola...
What Is Truth?
This is a story about truth—veritas. As in: Veritas Classical Academy of Oklahoma City, a blended (or “hybrid”) educational system that...
An Idea to Help Parents Afford College
As The Oklahoman recently noted, tuition and fees in Oklahoma continue to skyrocket: “In-state tuition and fees at OU in 1980 were $1,71...
The Rise of the $10,000 Bachelor’s Degree
In 2011, Texas Governor Rick Perry challenged Texas public higher education to develop degrees costing no more than $10,000. This year, ...
Contemplating the Future of Higher Education
America’s higher education system is in dire need of reform. The average college student leaves school with more than $23,000 in debt, a...
Non-Graduating Students Cost Oklahoma Taxpayers Millions
For the past 20 years I have conducted research on admissions and outcomes in public higher education and have noted the costs to states...
What D.C. Schools Can Teach Us about Obamacare
Thanks to the recent Supreme Court ruling, the federal government has gained broad new powers to control the nation’s health care system...
