By:
Gene Perry
September 27, 2011 // Updated: May 2, 2019
John Thompson is an education writer currently working on a book about his experience teaching for 18 years in the inner city of OKC. He has a doctorate from Rutgers University and is the author of Closing the Frontier: Radical…
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By:
Gene Perry
September 14, 2011 // Updated: May 2, 2019
Young children have one of the strongest claims for public support. They are dependent on us and clearly not to blame for any economic hardships they face.
Early childhood is also a smart investment of public dollars, since providing a…
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For a project funded by Smart Start Oklahoma, Oklahoma Policy Institute developed a fiscal map of the federal, state, local, and private supports for young children in our state.
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If Oklahoma is to have any chance of improving our students’ educational performance, we need to support excellence in our teachers and administrators. In recent years, Oklahoma has made such a commitment by investing in research-based professional development programs for…
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By:
Gene Perry
July 13, 2011 // Updated: May 2, 2019
The University of Tulsa recently announced that it is changing the name of its education department to the School of Urban Education. The change reflects an increased focus on the issues confronted in low-income, urban districts. OK Policy spoke with…
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Public schools have long been clearinghouses for fitness and nutrition initiatives in the United States. Since the 1960s, the President’s Challenge program has inspired kids to meet physical fitness benchmarks. Schoolchildren began to learn about the basic building blocks of…
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Kathy McKean is the director of the Oklahoma Technical Assistance Center, which provides evaluation and professional development to Oklahoma schools.
When people think of alternative education, they may imagine “punishment schools” or the Sweathogs on Welcome Back, Kotter. In many…
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The Oklahoma legislature is poised to deal a major blow to non-profits and faith-based organizations who help administer the WIC program. The Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) program is a federally-funded, state-administered nutrition service for low-income women, infants and children…
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In the spring of 2003, Saul Munoz* was a Tulsa high school senior thinking seriously about his future. Saul’s parents had moved the family to Oklahoma years earlier, leaving Mexico at a time of increasing violence and instability, and he…
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By:
Gene Perry
February 3, 2011 // Updated: May 2, 2019
High on this year’s agenda for Governor Fallin and education reform groups is to put more money into Oklahoma classrooms by reducing administrative costs. Two bills filed for the upcoming session seek to accomplish this by mandate — HB 1493…
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