By:
David Blatt
January 13, 2011 // Updated: May 2, 2019
John Thompson is an Oklahoma City teacher with 18 years of urban high school experience and an education blogger at thisweekineducation.com. He contributes regularly to our blog on education issues.
The Oklahoma City Public Schools faced breathtaking educational changes in…
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By:
David Blatt
October 25, 2010 // Updated: May 2, 2019
John Thompson is an Oklahoma City teacher with 18 years of urban high school experience and an education blogger at thisweekineducation.com. He contributes regularly to our blog on education issues.
The Oklahoma City Public Schools has launched a campaign to…
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By:
David Blatt
September 20, 2010 // Updated: May 2, 2019
In the spirit of full and vigorous debate on state policy issues, OK Policy is pleased to post this guest blog by Michelle Cantrell challenging our position on State Question 744. Michelle is the mother of three boys in the…
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By:
David Blatt
August 30, 2010 // Updated: May 2, 2019
John Thompson is an Oklahoma City teacher with 18 years of urban high school experience and an education blogger at thisweekineducation.com. He contributes regularly to our blog on education issues.
In 2000, when serving on the Steering Committee for MAPS…
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By:
David Blatt
August 13, 2010 // Updated: May 2, 2019
John Thompson is an Oklahoma City teacher with 18 years of urban high school experience and an education blogger at thisweekineducation.com. He contributes regularly to our blog on education issues.
A large body of social science has demonstrated the long-term…
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John Thompson is an Oklahoma City teacher with 18 years of urban high school experience and an education blogger at thisweekineducation.com. He is a regular contributor to our blog on education issues.
All of the neighborhood high schools in the…
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From time to time, we use the OK Policy blog to post contributions that offer interesting perspectives on important policy issues for the state. This is the second of two posts from John Thompson, an Oklahoma City teacher with 18…
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From time to time, we use the OK Policy blog to post contributions that offer interesting perspectives on important policy issues for the state. John Thompson is an Oklahoma City teacher with 18 years of urban high school experience and…
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We’re #1, again! Last month, the National Institute for Early Education Research released the 2009 State Preschool Yearbook, its annual report on pre-kindergarten education across the nation. Overall, the report’s press release proclaimed that “Oklahoma was ranked as the leader…
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Our public schools already shoulder a great deal of responsibility. They are expected not only to teach our children reading, writing and arithmetic, but also, in many cases, to help make sure that they are adequately fed and nourished, to…
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