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Great teachers have always valued social-emotional learning
In January, the veteran Oklahoma educator and activist Joyce Henderson wrote an editorial in The Oklahoman in which she reflected on her participation in...
Jesus, please save us from your extremists
"If Jesus came back and saw what's going on in his name,
he'd never stop throwing up."
— Frederick in Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
I have...
Uncomfortable convos for OKCPS: race, class, parenting
The most difficult and most emotional dispute in education is over the assessment of disciplinary consequences for student misconduct. The issue requires conversations about...
Web scraping hits NonDoc (and probably your site, too)
Thanks to some jackass robot, I recently learned about something known as web scraping.
Basically, and in the sense that it's relevant to NonDoc, people use...
Female comedians offering laughs with a purpose
We live in a world of serious problems: terrorism, poverty, disaster. You don’t have to look far to find sadness. Thankfully, there are a...
Hostility punctuates OKCPS community meetings
Teaching in the inner city is tough, and it can be as exasperating as it is joyous. Nobody is perfect, and I could recount...
Shaming third-graders: How school reform fails students
Virginia third-grade teacher Launa Hall exposed a shocking example of how corporate school reform has lost its soul, and a surprising innovation known as...
State of the Schools: Education systems like skyscrapers
James Spurlino, a member of ReadyNation and the owner of Spurlino Materials of Ohio, knows two things really well: early education and concrete.
Speaking at...
Letter: Blame earthquake on Fallin, ‘oilpatch boyfriends’
To the editors:
Thanks to Gov. Mary Fallin and her oilpatch boyfriends, Oklahoma has hit a new numerical high: a second 5.6 earthquake, this time...
Fordham: Make America Great Again, but for education
State Superintendent Joy Hofmeister spoke recently at a community meeting hosted by the Oklahoma State Department of Education. After hearing what she had to say, it...
