Jessica's "Daily Affirmation"
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A four-year old child's daily affirmation.
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Six Oklahoma schools fail financial responsibility test
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Oklahoma City University has failed the U.S. Department of Education's financial responsibility test for the first time in the school's history after its endowment lost $14 million when stock and bond investments dropped during the 2009 fiscal year.
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BA schools audit alleges wrongs
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Former Broken Arrow Public Schools officials circumvented state competitive-bidding laws to steer almost $3.2 million in business to a Broken Arrow heating-and-air vendor, according to audit documents obtained by the Tulsa World.
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Schools in Oklahoma City, Edmond top state's ACT scores
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Schools in Oklahoma City, Edmond and Norman have the state's top average composite ACT exam scores for 2010.
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More "chronically unemployable" people likely product of Canada's education system
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Canada could slip into Third World status if its education system is not reformed to produce innovative and creative graduates who can compete globally, say experts responding to the latest report from the Canadian Council on Learning.
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Why the National Writing Project should be saved
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Mary Tedrow -- Most of us know the old adage: Watch what they do, not what they say. Education Secretary Arne Duncan says he supports classroom teachers. Really? And he does this by dumping the National Writing Project, the best professional development program I’ve experienced in nearly 30 years of teaching?
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Playgrounds aren't what they used to be
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Merry-go-rounds, jungle gyms, giant swings and old-style teeter-totters used to be fixtures on school playgrounds. They are almost all gone now — banished for being unsafe.
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Drive to Overhaul Low-Performing Schools Delayed
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Negotiations among federal, state and local education officials have led to confusion about financing.
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McLain first high school in city to adopt uniforms
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Like it or not, the look for back to school at McLain High School for Science and Technology this year is pleats and plaids, slacks and ties and even crested blazers. McLain will become the first public high school in Tulsa to require uniforms for all students when classes begin Monday.
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Chancellor and School Panel Walk Out as Parents Jeer
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Angry parents protested a falloff in test scores at a meeting of a citywide education panel, prompting its members and the schools chancellor to walk out.
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Oklahoma auditor angered over audit criticism involving Broken Arrow schools
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State Auditor and Inspector Steve Burrage on Thursday called a state lawmaker arrogant and a liar. The verbal barbs came during a Capitol press conference called by Rep. Mike Reynolds to criticize the length of time it has taken to perform and release an audit of Broken Arrow Public Schools. The length of time seems "unprecedented," the Oklahoma City Republican said.
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Child who died on Wyandotte school playground identified
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The state medical examiner has identified the 9-year-old girl who died Thursday after an accident on playground equipment at a Wyandotte elementary school.
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An educational odyssey across three generations
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Hector Tobar -- Today, a lot of Angelenos are on the same odyssey. To get their kids a better education, they fight the Cyclops of budget reduction, and the many-headed monsters of public-school apathy. They go to battle for magnet-school points, or raid their own treasures to pay for private schools.
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"Not Written in Stone: Learning and Unlearning American History through textbooks
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"Not Written in Stone," looks at the ways historical events have been presented to students over the past 200 years and offers textbook excerpts from multiple eras to illustrate the ways in which emphasis and details have changed over time. The author believes that history is so complex that no single account can fully explain events either cataclysmic or small.
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Virtual school say funding blocked
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A promoter and two parents from a start-up charter school held a news conference in Tulsa on Thursday blasting State Superintendent Sandy Garrett for trying to block state funding for the school.
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