This is a thoughtful, well researched article. It should be required reading for every elected official-not just legislators. Even folks like city councilors and county commissioners can have some influence on educational policy shifts and changes. The Mississippi plan certainly has some evidenced based positive changes in policy but I reiterate your point about the danger of implementing fragments and not the “FULL” plan.
Teachers in Oklahoma have suffered so long. The political solution to the crisis is to strip funding from public schools and provide parents with private school vouchers. Public education is dying in Oklahoma. By design.
Ryan Walters was elected by a 14 point margin. The monster was the Oklahoma electorate’s choice to ensure a conservative evangelical counter to an empirical science based curriculum. He resigned. He was not voted out of office.
The Oklahoma electorate will find another monster to replicate his legacy.
These monster candidates are the reflection of the voters culture.
When my children graduated from the University of Tulsa my best advice to them was to leave the state. Take their talents to progressive areas where they do not constantly have to battle public policy of ignorance, homophobia, racism and religious intolerance.
Until the core toxic culture manifested by an evangelical right wing conservative population changes, the monsters will prevail.
great article as usual!
This is a thoughtful, well researched article. It should be required reading for every elected official-not just legislators. Even folks like city councilors and county commissioners can have some influence on educational policy shifts and changes. The Mississippi plan certainly has some evidenced based positive changes in policy but I reiterate your point about the danger of implementing fragments and not the “FULL” plan.
Thank you for your research and writing!
Teachers in Oklahoma have suffered so long. The political solution to the crisis is to strip funding from public schools and provide parents with private school vouchers. Public education is dying in Oklahoma. By design.
Ryan Walters was elected by a 14 point margin. The monster was the Oklahoma electorate’s choice to ensure a conservative evangelical counter to an empirical science based curriculum. He resigned. He was not voted out of office.
The Oklahoma electorate will find another monster to replicate his legacy.
These monster candidates are the reflection of the voters culture.
When my children graduated from the University of Tulsa my best advice to them was to leave the state. Take their talents to progressive areas where they do not constantly have to battle public policy of ignorance, homophobia, racism and religious intolerance.
Until the core toxic culture manifested by an evangelical right wing conservative population changes, the monsters will prevail.