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Defending Steve Perry: One-size-fits-all education ‘grossly delusional’
Steve Perry, a well-known advocate for school choice, gave the keynote speech to the Oklahoma School Choice Summit last month. As the name implies,...
Engineer: Education must be about more than grades
Recently, I responded to a student who had a question about his grade. He indicated a hesitation to remain in my class because he runs...
What if every Oklahoman bought a Powerball ticket?
With Oklahoma's current leadership declaring 2016 a revenue failure and facing a nearly $900 million shortfall for next year's budget, it's time to look somewhere else to fund...
Early education? Great! After that, not so much
Oklahoma has always had a surplus of weird paradoxes. We exhibit so many contradictions that even the most important of them can get overlooked.
For...
Mediator: HB 1277 would punish divorcing couples
Some observers of our current system have said that we live in a disposable society in which too many people think of marriage as...
Exposure: The difference between engineers, criminals
I came home the other day and found a space station sitting on my living room floor. My wife informed me that our son...
School choice forum: OCPA president spouts post-truths
The Oklahoma Watch-Out: School Choice edition on Feb. 28 came to an angry conclusion (see video above) after Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs' Jonathan Small presented...
Zua: ‘It is his people’s time to come’
Zua
by James Coburn
I walk with Angola
Knowing a young man,
A rising voice of his people
Percolating from generations
Pure as the night sky;
Fervent as a great river
Joining...
Dear White People shows ‘triple consciousness’ of black character
(Editor's note: This is the second in a series of film reviews and cultural observations from 2017's South by Southwest festival.)
AUSTIN — The notion...
March for Science: ‘Our priorities are so out of whack’
The first year I became a lawyer — some three decades ago now — I made more money than my late father had ever made in...
