Commentary
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‘Ridiculous’ A-F school grades paint partial picture
Back in the early 1990s, there were some potentially useful purposes for hard copies of data-driven report cards about school performance. For example, they...
Open sesame: Kevin Stitt and the 40 mayors
You can hear it faintly in the distance: A call from the governor's OKC residences, or perhaps his home in Tulsa, to slowly re-open...
HB 1955 carveouts? Say hello to the beer and pizza tax
It appears groceries are about to get a little cheaper. Well, most of them anyway.
After weeks of discussion, the Oklahoma State Senate decided to...
Sunday Funday: Kanye West and a man who smells
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A Chance Encounter With Fear
I...
Literature is for the goose, gander and gosling
MOMBASA, Kenya — I believe experience has no meaning until it is frozen into words, to be swallowed in whole.
My friend, Olivia Oganda, tops...
Debate: Voters see Hunter, Drummond in action
Oklahoma's runoff elections will occur in three short weeks, and a packed ballot for the state's Republican Party means that media — and voters...
OKCPS name conflicts do not help students
Only a couple of weeks before the scheduled start of its academic year, Oklahoma City Public Schools announced it was opening Putnam Heights Academy, the...
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...
Teacher shortage: Real or fabricated?
It sounds weird, but some school reformers keep denying that teachers are fleeing the classroom. Even stranger, Oklahoma is cited as a place where...
Letter from the Editor in Chief: Doing what’s right
In many ways, people want from their media the same things they want from their government: transparency, accountability and ethics.
Unfortunately, public opinion polling shows that...
