By [email protected] December 16, 2013 Uncategorized 8 Comments Late Friday afternoon, the State Department issued a bulletin announcing the long-awaited release of the Proposed Oklahoma Academic Standards for Science (OASS). In the announcement, the OSDE posted a link the 238-page document (HERE) for review and public comment through January 14, 2014. I’m ready to comment. […]

By [email protected] December 13, 2013 Uncategorized 2 Comments The temperatures may still be quite chilly outside, yet within the smoldering cauldron of school reforms, the temperature is increasing at a steady and predictable pace. In the preview for my series of future posts related to the ruination of the teaching profession by the education deformers, […]

In my previous post, I spoke at some length on the proclivity of many politicians to use statistics in misleading or dishonest ways in order to support a particular narrative or point of view. When desperate, we have also seen many resort to the use of ad Hominem attacks, half-truths or innuendo in an attempt […]

Over the last ten years, public school educators have been the target of intense scrutiny and unwarranted criticism from the corporate reformers and certain government officials. We are referred to as “slugs” and dismissed as lazy, uncaring, and overpaid. It doesn’t help that Race to the Top pushes the idea that teachers–not students–are the sole […]

About my blog… Let me first say that this is MY blog and that the thoughts and comments contained therein reflect my views and mine alone. They do not necessarily reflect the view of anyone else in my district, particularly district leadership or school board members.  I don’t even claim to be right most of the […]

Many of you may not have had the opportunity to listen to our State Superintendent of Public Private Education during her recent interview with Choice Media’s Jonathan Butcher. The full ten minute interview is  embedded at the bottom of this post for your viewing “pleasure.” Don’t expect any revelations though.  As Jonathan lobs one softball […]

“Feeling down ‘n’ dirty, feeling kind of mean I’ve been from one to another extreme This time I had a good time, ain’t got time to wait I wanna stick around till I can’t see straight Fill my eyes with that double vision No disguise for that double vision Ooh, when it gets through to […]

I have to give a standing ovation to Dr. Jared Mendenhall, the Broken Arrow Superintendent, who exposed himself to hostile action by stepping out on point this weekend. In an email sent Saturday to school administrators in both the Tulsa and Oklahoma City areas, Mendenhall  asked others to join him in giving our current State Superintendent a vote […]