Articles
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Education
Choice Is the Real Accountability
For “accountability” in education, the 2015 legislative season is turning out to be the best of times and the worst of times.Greg Forster, Ph.D. | June 29, 2015
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Education
School Choice: A Declaration of Independence
Today, the road back to self-government and the principles of the Declaration of Independence runs through school choice. Where the rulers control the formation of the minds, hearts, and skills of the young, sovereignty rests with them. Putting parents back in charge of education also puts citizens back in charge of civil society and government.Greg Forster, Ph.D. | June 25, 2015
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Budget & Tax, Education
DHS program adjustments a step in the right direction
State legislators should shrink the Department of Human Services budget and enlarge your family budget: Redirect a portion of Oklahoma’s daycare subsidies toward a tax break for families with a parent at home.Brandon Dutcher | June 22, 2015
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Education
Free Market Friday: Batting for children
The Oklahoma Supreme Court will soon decide the fate of the Lindsey Nicole Henry Scholarship program, which allows parents of children with disabilities to send them to schools where they can get the best educational services. An influential voice has joined that debate, the Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice.Michael Carnuccio | June 5, 2015
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Education
Underpaid? Join the Club
The bottom line: Most Oklahomans receive lower pay than their counterparts in other states. Few of our occupations are near the top in the 50-state rankings. We simply cannot afford to compensate teachers like, say, Connecticut.Brandon Dutcher & J. Scott Moody | June 1, 2015
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Education
Combating a culture of ‘disengagement and compulsory learning’
In an interesting and insightful blog post, Rob Miller, longtime principal at Jenks Middle School, recently reflected on “all the parallels between being an airline passenger and daily life as a student in a typical middle or high school classroom in America today.”Brandon Dutcher | May 27, 2015
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Education
Education savings accounts will put parents in charge
It’s clear that ESAs will enable more Oklahoma parents to afford the best educational options for their children.Brandon Dutcher | May 22, 2015
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Education
Oklahoma could learn from Minnesota's decentralized, choice-based preschool program
Who should benefit from government-funded preschool? That is the question posed by the American Enterprise Institute in response to Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton's plan to introduce universal pre-K to the Minnesota public school system.Jennifer Doverspike | May 18, 2015
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Education
The Heart of the Reform Agenda: School Choice
School choice is decentralization in action. The history of education in America from Horace Mann to the very recent past is one of decentralized creation and then forced centralization, first by state government, and later by the Feds. The trend is now in the other direction. Charter schools, private schools, and even more so, homeschooling, are distributions of power from the center.Jason Reese | May 12, 2015
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Education
School Choice Myths in Oklahoma
What we still don’t know about education is a big deal. But our bigger problem is what we think we know that isn’t so.Greg Forster, Ph.D. | April 29, 2015