Showing posts with label School Performance Woes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label School Performance Woes. Show all posts
Sunday, October 15, 2023

90% of Oklahoma ACT test-takers do not meet readiness benchmarks in all subjects

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Public Radio Tulsa has the story .
Sunday, October 1, 2023

Oklahoma's school-produced illiteracy crisis persists

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"Around 20 percent of Oklahomans, approximately 560,000 people, have a 6th-grade reading level or less," says state Sen. Jessica ...
Sunday, September 3, 2023

6 in 10 Enid students 'fall short' in math

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"Math knowledge—one of the basic skills for all of us to function in our complex world—still is lagging among school-age youth," t...
Friday, September 1, 2023

Surveys reveal little improvement in Oklahoma’s literacy rates since 2012

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"About 1 in 5 Oklahoma adults struggle to read and comprehend written English," Oklahoma Voice reports .
Tuesday, May 23, 2023

State Superintendent says Tulsa public schools are failing our kids

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He's not wrong .
Friday, May 19, 2023

It's a good question

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"If educators are the experts," asks one longtime Oklahoma public school teacher, "then why are the majority of our schools ...
Monday, May 15, 2023

TPS illiteracy is 'commonplace'

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KTUL has the story of "one of many" Tulsa children who can't read.
Thursday, December 22, 2022

Nearly 19 of 20 Oklahoma high-school graduates unprepared in STEM

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Ray Carter has the story .
Tuesday, November 1, 2022

Lost learning, lost earnings

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Oklahoma public schools have more money than they’ve ever had, “and it’s not even close.” Yet look at what we’re doing to our children’s ch...
Friday, October 28, 2022

Demographics don’t explain Oklahoma’s bad school results

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Oklahoma’s poor educational outcomes are often dismissed as a byproduct of student demographics, particularly child poverty. But according t...
Tuesday, October 25, 2022

NAEP tests show academic results plunged under Hofmeister

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Oklahoma’s fourth-grade students in 2022 had nearly one-and-a-half years less learning than their counterparts in 2015.
Friday, October 21, 2022

Oklahoma’s ACT scores are the third-lowest in the country

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That is bad news, indeed, but the trend line is what should truly worry Oklahomans.
Friday, October 14, 2022

ACT scores declining or flat for 7 of 8 years under Hofmeister

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The graduating class of 2022 in Oklahoma had among the worst average composite scores in the nation on the ACT test — a statistic made even...
Tuesday, September 27, 2022

Oklahoma testing results continue to disappoint

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Despite record-high levels of funding, Ray Carter reports , a large majority of Oklahoma students in all grades and subjects are not profici...
Wednesday, May 4, 2022

School spending surge brings complaints, not improvement

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Oklahoma public schools “have more money than they’ve ever had in the history of the state," one House leader notes , "and it’s no...
Thursday, November 4, 2021

Academic outcomes vary in Oklahoma schools, but decline the norm

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"In Tulsa Public Schools, 89 percent of students tested below grade level in all subjects, and 64 percent were more than a year behind,...
Wednesday, October 13, 2021

Oklahoma learning loss worse than surrounding states

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"While students nationwide experienced learning loss during COVID shutdowns, the decline in Oklahoma was worse than in surrounding stat...
Wednesday, January 20, 2021

Oklahoma school district says diploma is no indicator of learning

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"In a court filing, an Oklahoma school district has declared the issuance of either a passing grade or a high school diploma is not—...
Friday, December 4, 2020

Inaction on parental choice is impossible

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An overwhelming 74% of GOP primary voters believe the money should follow the child. [Guest post by Jonathan Small] Oklahoma parents are d...
Friday, October 16, 2020

Why is Epic popular?

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[Guest post by Jonathan Small] Ask the average citizen what they know about Epic Charter Schools, an online public K-12 school, and you’ll t...