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Far from undermining public education, school choice provides an environment in which public schools can thrive.

Former Gov. Frank Keating (a Republican) and former state treasurer Scott Meacham (a Democrat) took to the pages of The Oklahoman this week to sound the alarm about Oklahoma’s very serious educational-performance problems

Do we want to make college tuition-free for Oklahomans and simultaneously reduce government spending? Amazingly, this option is possible today because of the emergence of high-quality, low-cost college.

There is a lot of discussion in the mainstream media about the “college wage premium”—the benefit gained by earning a college diploma in terms of one’s long-term earning potential.

Disruptive innovation is all around us. The $10,000 bachelor’s degree is here to stay, for example. Harvard business professor Clayton Christensen says “15 years from now more than half of the universities will be in bankruptcy, including the state schools.” It’s time for Oklahoma’s political leaders to reconsider some things.

Fortunately, some reporters have the wisdom to consider not only that which is seen, but that which is unseen.

Conversations on how to make college affordable are endless. Technically, we know how to significantly lower costs and improve quality, but little appears to be happening. Existing institutions are intransigent, and tuition keeps going up. Providing affordable education is simply not a goal of today’s leading colleges and universities. Most could cut tuition in half by simply returning to their business models of 25 years ago, but they have no incentive to do so.

OCPA adjunct scholar Andrew Spiropoulos isn't sold on Oklahoma's new tort-reform law, but in today's Tulsa World OCPA trustee John Brock says the law is good news.

Public opinion surveys in this state consistently show that somewhere in the vicinity of 18 percent of Oklahomans described themselves as somewhat or strongly liberal, while 67 percent called themselves somewhat or strongly conservative.

Ah, what the geography majors are studying in Norman these days.