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This post was written by OK Policy volunteer Zoraya Hightower. Zoraya completed her undergraduate degree at the University of Tulsa and this fall will begin a Master of Environmental Management at Yale.
America spends more than any other nation on… Read more [More...]
John Thompson is a former Oklahoma historian and inner city teacher who is now an education writer focusing on inner city schools.
The accountability-driven school “reform” movement argues that schools are so broken that the only answer is rapid and… Read more [More...]
By: Guest
June 18, 2013 // Updated: October 2, 2013
Elizabeth Fussell is a professor in the Sociology Department of Washington State University and a member of the Scholars Strategy Network. Her research focuses on migration and population change in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.
On May 20, 2013, a… Read more [More...]
By: Guest
June 10, 2013 // Updated: October 2, 2013
Ken Busby is the Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Arts & Humanities Council of Tulsa. This post originally appeared on ArtsBlog, the blog of Americans for the Arts, and is reposted with the author’s permission
We’ve just… Read more [More...]
Cindy Cason is a native Oklahoman who helped launch the Together Oklahoma statewide grassroots coalition, working to ensure Oklahoma values are connected to state budget priorities.
Last week at Norman’s Jazz Aid Concert to benefit tornado recovery efforts, a young… Read more [More...]
Colin D. Moore is Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Hawai’i at Manoa, and a member of the Scholars Strategy Network (SSN). His research examines how the development of public bureaucracies has shaped politics and public policy in the… Read more [More...]
John Pearson is a retired executive in the worldwide logistics industry. He is chairman of the Oklahoma Partnership for Successful Reentry, a statewide coalition of organizations working to help ex-felons reintegrate into society.
Social Impact bonds (SIB) are a promising… Read more [More...]
Fred Benjamin serves as the Chief Operating Officer of Medicalodges, Inc., an employee-owned company that owns and operates over 30 facilities in Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma, employing over 2,200. This post is adapted from his testimony before the US House… Read more [More...]
Kathy McKean is the director of the Oklahoma Technical Assistance Center, which provides evaluation and professional development to Oklahoma schools.
The drive to improve education that began with the publication of A Nation at Risk in 1983 has continued for… Read more [More...]
By: Guest
March 14, 2013 // Updated: March 15, 2013
Michelle Cantrell is a tax specialist residing in Tulsa.
Last November, Oklahoma voters approved State Question 766, a constitutional amendment which exempts all intangible personal property from ad valorem taxation. Though the new law seems simple, it creates complex questions… Read more [More...]
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This post was written by OK Policy volunteer Zoraya Hightower. Zoraya completed her undergraduate degree at the University of Tulsa and this fall will begin a Master of Environmental Management at Yale.
America spends more than any other nation on… Read more [More...]
John Thompson is a former Oklahoma historian and inner city teacher who is now an education writer focusing on inner city schools.
The accountability-driven school “reform” movement argues that schools are so broken that the only answer is rapid and… Read more [More...]
Elizabeth Fussell is a professor in the Sociology Department of Washington State University and a member of the Scholars Strategy Network. Her research focuses on migration and population change in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.
On May 20, 2013, a… Read more [More...]
Ken Busby is the Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Arts & Humanities Council of Tulsa. This post originally appeared on ArtsBlog, the blog of Americans for the Arts, and is reposted with the author’s permission
We’ve just… Read more [More...]
Cindy Cason is a native Oklahoman who helped launch the Together Oklahoma statewide grassroots coalition, working to ensure Oklahoma values are connected to state budget priorities.
Last week at Norman’s Jazz Aid Concert to benefit tornado recovery efforts, a young… Read more [More...]
Colin D. Moore is Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Hawai’i at Manoa, and a member of the Scholars Strategy Network (SSN). His research examines how the development of public bureaucracies has shaped politics and public policy in the… Read more [More...]
John Pearson is a retired executive in the worldwide logistics industry. He is chairman of the Oklahoma Partnership for Successful Reentry, a statewide coalition of organizations working to help ex-felons reintegrate into society.
Social Impact bonds (SIB) are a promising… Read more [More...]
Fred Benjamin serves as the Chief Operating Officer of Medicalodges, Inc., an employee-owned company that owns and operates over 30 facilities in Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma, employing over 2,200. This post is adapted from his testimony before the US House… Read more [More...]
Kathy McKean is the director of the Oklahoma Technical Assistance Center, which provides evaluation and professional development to Oklahoma schools.
The drive to improve education that began with the publication of A Nation at Risk in 1983 has continued for… Read more [More...]
Michelle Cantrell is a tax specialist residing in Tulsa.
Last November, Oklahoma voters approved State Question 766, a constitutional amendment which exempts all intangible personal property from ad valorem taxation. Though the new law seems simple, it creates complex questions… Read more [More...]
