By:
Gene Perry
December 16, 2013 // Updated: May 2, 2019
What passes for an education policy debate in Oklahoma spends a lot of time on a few familiar subjects — education funding vs. tax cuts, vouchers and charters vs. traditional public schools, high-stakes testing vs. teacher and school independence. What’s…
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By:
Gene Perry
December 10, 2013 // Updated: May 2, 2019
The debate over Oklahoma’s A-F grading system has in large part centered on a debate over the effects of poverty on student performance. Whatever you think about how much we can expect schools to overcome the effects of poverty, one…
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By:
David Blatt
November 20, 2013 // Updated: May 2, 2019
A major change in Oklahoma’s education system is about to kick in. Under new provisions of the Reading Sufficiency Act (RSA), third-grade students who do not attain a satisfactory score on a state standardized reading test will be retained in…
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By:
Gene Perry
November 11, 2013 // Updated: May 2, 2019
In a report released last month (and summarized on our blog here), researchers at the University of Oklahoma and Oklahoma State University found major flaws in Oklahoma’s A-F grading system for schools. The Fallin administration recently jumped to the defense…
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By:
Guest
October 28, 2013 // Updated: May 2, 2019
Ryan Miskell is an OK Policy Research Fellow and a research associate with the Oklahoma Center for Education Policy. He is working on his Ph.D. in Education Leadership and Policy Studies from The University of Oklahoma. He is a contributing…
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By:
Gene Perry
October 16, 2013 // Updated: May 2, 2019
Oklahoma’s students show up at school bringing diverse skills and backgrounds. Some have supportive parents who read to them every night; others are still learning English. Some are provided with the best tutors; others don’t have enough to eat at home. Oklahoma has a duty to teach all of these children. This report recommends action items for Oklahoma to better fulfill that duty...
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By:
Gene Perry
September 12, 2013 // Updated: May 2, 2019
A new report by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities finds that Oklahoma has made the deepest cuts to school funding in the nation since the start of the recession. The report is a follow-up of last year’s study…
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By:
David Blatt
August 22, 2013 // Updated: May 2, 2019
The best way for Oklahoma to grow its economy is by investing in a well-educated workforce, according to a new paper from the Economic Analysis and Research Network (EARN), a project of the Economic Policy Institute.
In “A Well-Educated Workforce…
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By:
Gene Perry
August 1, 2013 // Updated: May 2, 2019
This post originally ran in September 2012. We’ve updated it with discussion of this year’s state funding of schools.
Oklahoma’s economy has performed relatively well over the course of the Great Recession, compared to the nation as a whole. We’ve…
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By:
Guest
July 15, 2013 // Updated: May 2, 2019
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…
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