Articles
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Education
A Closer Look at Oklahoma’s Teacher Shortage
Talk of a pending teacher shortage comes every decade. While the talk rarely has translated into disaster, there’s no question that it causes districts and school boards to panic.Kate Walsh | October 28, 2015
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Education
Choosing Choice Is Choosing Families
The government school monopoly is one of the most important factors undermining the family unit; universal school choice would be a big step toward strengthening the family.Greg Forster, Ph.D. | September 17, 2015
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Education
ESAs Could Be a Game-Changer for Oklahoma Parents
ESAs are the latest advance in educational choice, fostering an unprecedented level of personalized learning opportunities for students customized by those who know and love them best: their parents.Vicki Alger | September 17, 2015
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Education
Free Market Friday: Children are suffering
What is it that is distracting from teaching well the core foundations of reading, writing and arithmetic? How can common education, higher education and lawmakers better align resources and incentives so students and teachers have the best opportunity to succeed? If we really care about children, their families and teachers, then we will answer the tough questions.Michael Carnuccio | September 11, 2015
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Education, Agriculture
Win-Win Solutions for Oklahoma Farmers and Needy Children
All the ideas discussed in this article are within state officials’ control. While policymakers cannot remove the risk of Oklahoma’s weather, the state can provide a more stable market that also provides a higher return to the state’s farmers by having the state’s elected officials and agencies act in concert for the benefit of all Oklahomans.Steve Anderson | September 1, 2015
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Education
Free Market Friday: Innovate, don’t mandate
Those faced with the challenges of autism deserve our cooperation and innovation – not mandates and the assault on programs that already prove effective.Michael Carnuccio | August 28, 2015
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Education
Free Market Friday: Doing more with less
While education funding in Oklahoma amounts to roughly $156,000 per classroom, taxpayers are told of underfunded schools and impoverished students who are difficult to educate. Well, earlier this month the prestigious magazine The Economist had a fascinating cover story, “The $1-a-week school,” on the rapid emergence of low-budget private schools in a number of nations, most of which can be safely classified as Third World.Michael Carnuccio | August 21, 2015
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Budget & Tax, Education
Free Market Friday: A new way of funding
Most Oklahoma taxpayers have no idea how our schools are funded. That’s not surprising. Money flows to our schools from a variety of sources, each of which may pay based on different criteria.Michael Carnuccio | August 7, 2015
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Education
Toddler technocracy
Oklahoma is one of only a tiny handful of states in which the overwhelming majority of four-year-olds attend government-run pre-Kindergarten. Oklahomans ought to ask themselves if that aligns with who they are as a people and what they think is important for young children.Greg Forster, Ph.D. | August 1, 2015
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Education
How to Make the Government Pay for the Perfect Education for Your Kid
ESAs build on the very worthwhile voucher and scholarship option by enabling families to direct every single dollar in their child’s account to multiple providers and products. And they include solid accountability measures, including providing receipts for expenditures to those managing the ESA programs in state agencies.Lindsey M. Burke | August 1, 2015