Articles
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Education
When 'Dark' Brings Light: First Amendment Money Yields School Choice Victories in Oklahoma
When it comes to independent expenditures in American campaigns, policy preferences may drive how one refers to political spending intended to sway voters one way or another on substantive matters.Patrick B. McGuigan | October 23, 2014
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Education
School choice ‘will raise teacher salaries’
The average member of the public says one out of every five teachers is unsatisfactory. Clearly we need better teachers; the question is how to get themBrandon Dutcher | October 7, 2014
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Education
Free Market Friday: Give them what they want
When it comes to improving education, what can Oklahoma learn from other countries?Michael Carnuccio | September 26, 2014
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Budget & Tax, Education
A Textbook Case of Misplaced Priorities
Yes, it may present a management challenge, but this is the sort of problem the Heavener superintendent is paid $98,022 annually to solve.Brandon Dutcher | September 19, 2014
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Education
Statewide School Choice Program Would Benefit Wage-Earners
Every child in America should have the same educational opportunity as do President Obama’s children. They enjoy school choice.Mark Costello | September 19, 2014
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Education
Policy Ideas for Safeguarding Our Children's Futures
Given that children are the key to a prosperous economy, what lessons should our political leaders always keep in mind when crafting public policy? Allow me to suggest three.Wendy Warcholik, Ph.D. | September 19, 2014
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Education
The Future of School Choice
Nonetheless, I still think it’s our battle to lose. Martin Luther King, sitting in that Birmingham jail, didn’t think he was losing. He knew he was winning. Never mind that the segregationists had all the money, all the laws, all the hoses, all the dogs, and all the guns. King had a just cause and an entrepreneurial spirit.Greg Forster, Ph.D. | September 19, 2014
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Education
The soul of moderation? Black Oklahomans for school choice
Now that I have your attention: Do black children and all children in American schools deserve choices?Patrick B. McGuigan | September 19, 2014
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Education
Another year, another wake-up call
To repeat: school choice improves public schools. Rather than once again hitting the “more government spending” snooze button, policymakers should respond to this latest wake-up call with robust school-choice policies.Brandon Dutcher | September 17, 2014
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Education
Educator says Oklahoma has ‘some really bad teachers.’ How do we get more good ones?
The 2014 Education Next survey, overseen by the Harvard Program on Education Policy and Governance, was released last month. Among other things, the survey asked Americans to grade the teachers in their local schools on the quality of their work.Brandon Dutcher | September 2, 2014