Articles Tagged “Oklahoma”
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Becoming A Texan Ain’t Easy!
BY NORM ROURKE Winners of the Red River Rivalry change from year-to-year. But Oklahoma is the hands down winner when it comes to registering a vehicle or getting a driver’s license if you’re from out-of-state. “Everything is BIG in Texas!” And they are right when it comes to the state’s awkward bureaucratic paper shuffling Texas [...]
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A ‘Close Reading’ Of HB 1035
BY CLAUDIA SWISHER Close reading … we hear a lot about that in the Common Core Standards written by David Coleman. We’ve seen examples of his interpretation of the strategy. If this is, indeed, something we value in education, teachers should practice close reading in their own professional life. As always, we teach better when [...]
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Thank You, Bryant Baker, For Our Territorial Mom
BY DAVID PERRYMAN Gazing intently to the southwest with her chin held high, Oklahoma’s Pioneer Woman statute stands as a symbol of courage, faith and hope and is one of the most recognizable sculptures in the United States. The statue is properly named “Confidence.” Portrayed is not a woman with worn or calloused features. She [...]
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Open Mouth, Insert Foot
BY KENNY BELFORD After eight years of Republican Gov. Frank Keating constantly inserting his foot in his mouth we thought we’d heard enough absurdities from the Keating clan. That was until May 9. On that date Martin Keating, brother of Frank, and a self-proclaimed “role model” had a letter to the editor published in The [...]
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Education Budget Leaves Schools, Students Needing More
BY ED CANNADAY State leaders announced the budget last week with great flourish, lauding its “fiscal conservatism” and its attention to state services in most need of funding increases. Taking the spotlight in the lavish production of this allegedly “early” budget is the $91 million “increase” to education, which the budget’s author boasts takes up [...]
