Articles Tagged “Sen. John Ford”
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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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Destroying Public Ed
BY ARNOLD HAMILTON My dear friend, and our founding editor, Frosty Troy argues that any Oklahoma teacher who votes Republican these days might just as well get up each morning and shoot themselves in both feet. Several of my more conservative teacher friends – they’ve bought into the GOP-Religious Right-Values Voters claptrap – aren’t amused [...]
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Rebecca Hamilton’s Betrayal
BY ARNOLD HAMILTON How much longer are Democrats going to put up with state Rep. Rebecca Hamilton? The south OKC rep, who’s been trending Republican for years, stabbed her Democratic colleagues in the back today with a procedural move that cut off discussion of one of the GOP’s most sinister [potentially] bills: Voter ID. House [...]
