Education
- How School Choice Came to Oklahoma
- June 30, 2010
- By Patrick B. McGuigan
For many years I have reported in newspapers, in cyberspace, and in the broadcast arena. Due to my own interest and leavened by experiences as an inner-city educator, I have written hundreds of stories on education. A high percentage of those have been focused on school choice.
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- Dreams, Challenges, and a Journey, Together
- June 01, 2010
- By Patrick B. McGuigan
Some stories write themselves. This is one of those. Emily Deal lives in the MidTown area of Oklahoma City. She is the mother of three, one of them an autistic son. Read More >
- Oklahomans Say More Spending Won't Help
- May 03, 2010
- By Brandon Dutcher
There's a tradition in education," former New York City school chancellor Frank Macchiarola once observed, "that if you spend a dollar and it doesn't work, you should spend two dollars; and not only that, you should give those two dollars to the same person who couldn't do the job with only one."
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- Charting Oklahoma's Education Productivity Collapse
- April 01, 2010
- By Andrew J. Coulson
I was asked recently by OCPA's Brandon Dutcher to investigate the relationship between spending and student achievement in Oklahoma, and to chart the results as I've done for U.S. school spending and student achievement. The chart appeared last month in these pages, and is reprinted here.
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- Newberry Bill Advances Scholarships for Parental Choice
- February 01, 2010
- By Patrick B. McGuigan
In an attempt to expand the choices available for parents of elementary and secondary students, state Sen. Dan Newberry (R-Tulsa) this month introduced the Oklahoma Equal Opportunity Education Scholarship Act. Read More >
- Historical Bullies Intimidate Teacher
- February 01, 2010
- By Ben House
Have you ever had the experience of being afraid to walk down a certain street because a bully there intimidated you? I have long since outgrown that fear, but I am still intimidated. Read More >
- Study Points Up Higher-Ed Shortcomings
- February 01, 2010
- What students are actually learning in America's colleges may astonish you.
On February 10, the nonprofit, nonpartisan educational organization the Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI) will release its fourth annual report assessing how well America's colleges and universities are preparing graduates for lives of informed and responsible citizenship. Read More >
- Oklahoma Can't Afford Not to Have School Choice
- February 01, 2010
- By Adam B. Schaeffer
In his State of the Union address last month, President Obama proposed spending another $4 billion annually on K-12 public education. He did not mention that state, local, and federal governments already spend well over twice what they did in 1980, or that there has been no discernible improvement in student achievement during that period. Read More >
- An Unintended Consequence Worth Praying For
- February 01, 2010
- "Oklahoma may or may not finish this fiscal year in the black," I wrote last summer in Urban Tulsa Weekly, "and the consensus seems to be that next year's budget situation will be worse. ... And there's one proposal-an item on next year's crowded ballot-that is certain to cause headaches. Leaders of the state's most powerful labor union, the Oklahoma Education Association, are asking taxpayers for an additional $850 million annual bailout. It's called the HOPE initiative Read More >
- Public School Results at Elite Prep-School Prices
- January 01, 2010
- By Steve Anderson
What is the truth about per-pupil spending in Oklahoma?
The state's most powerful labor union, the Oklahoma Education Association (OEA), says we spend $7,615 per pupil in Oklahoma. The union gets this number from the National Center for Education Statistics. But I have conducted a comprehensive examination of public education spending in Oklahoma for the 2007-08 school year (the latest year for which actual data are available), and I estimate the real number is $10,257 per pupil.
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