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Education
On fixed costs, school administrators can’t have it both ways
“If you have more students, you need more teachers,” Duncan superintendent Sherry Labyer sensibly told the Duncan Banner in February. If, for example, 250 new students show up to enroll in Duncan’s public schools, then obviously administrators will need to hire more teachers.Brandon Dutcher | May 12, 2014
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Education
School Choice Saves Money for State, School District Budgets
The design of the Education Savings Account program ensures that state taxpayers will save substantial funding as some students access Education Savings Accounts.Benjamin Scafidi | May 7, 2014
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Education
Oklahomans want educational choices
An honest reading of the public-opinion survey data over the past couple of years shows that Oklahomans favor educational choice.Brandon Dutcher | April 28, 2014
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Education
Can Oklahoma afford to fail 10,529 high-school students every year?
Schools, like students, need to learn to see a tough task through until it’s complete. And if they tell us they’re having too much trouble learning, reforms like school choice could help them get up to speed.Greg Forster, Ph.D. | April 10, 2014
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Education
Parental Choice Is Accountability
Americans face a choice between two paths that will guide education in this nation for generations: self-government and central planning. Which we choose will depend in large measure on how well we understand accountability.Andrew J. Coulson, Jason Bedrick, Lindsey M. Burke, Joseph Bast, Kara Kerwin & Herbert J. Walberg | April 9, 2014
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Education, Culture & the Family
Family Intactness, Parental Participation, and Student Performance
When President Obama was interviewed by Bill O’Reilly of FOX News, O’Reilly made the statement that poverty is driven by the dissolution of the American family. He specifically asked the president, “Why isn’t there a campaign by you and the First Lady to address this very explicitly?”Wendy Warcholik, Ph.D. | April 9, 2014
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Education
‘Essentially No Link’ Between State Education Spending and Student Performance
Even as various school-employee labor unions and other members of the public-education community converged on the state capitol March 31 for an “education funding rally,” a new study released two weeks prior suggests that “there is essentially no link” between state education spending and student performance.Brandon Dutcher | April 9, 2014
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Education
Parental Choice Is Accountability
Americans face a choice between two paths that will guide education in this nation for generations: self-government and central planning. Which we choose will depend in large measure on how well we understand accountability.Andrew J. Coulson, Jason Bedrick & Lindsey M. Burke | April 9, 2014
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Education
Liberal Christian says trapping kids in dreadful schools is 'outrageous and immoral'
Dr. Olasky (who once gave a speech for OCPA entitled “Why School Choice is Compassionate”) followed up with this question: “What if you compare the education that some inner city students get in good Christian schools, compared to what they get in their local public schools?”Brandon Dutcher | April 1, 2014
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Education
‘Essentially no link’ between state education spending and student performance
Even as various school-employee labor unions and other members of the public-education community converged on the state capitol March 31 for an “education funding rally,” a new study released two weeks prior suggests that “there is essentially no link” between state education spending and student performance.Brandon Dutcher | March 19, 2014