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Commentary: OKCPS too reliant on suspensions

By John Thompson
Dec 11, 2015

Tags: Commentary, discipline, education, in-school suspension, ISS, john marshall high school, John Thompson, MAPS for Kids, Northwest Classen, Oklahoma City Board of Education, Oklahoma City Public Schools, school suspensions, webster middle school
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Commentary: An open letter to David Boren

By John Thompson
Oct 14, 2015

Tags: Commentary, David Boren, education, no child left behind, School Improvement Grants, teacher pay
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Commentary: Difficult changes needed

By John Thompson
Jul 9, 2015

Tags: Commentary, classroom management, education, John Thompson, kipp, MAPS for Kids, no child left behind, okcps, Oklahoma City Public Schools
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Commentary: Students’ tests measure wrong things

By John Thompson
Sep 2, 2014

Tags: Commentary, John Thompson, opinion
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Commentary: Education for the people

By John Thompson
Jul 8, 2014

Tags: Commentary, common core, public schools
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The War on Poverty wasn’t “lost,” but neither did we win it.

By John Thompson
May 28, 2014

Tags: Commentary, education, John Thompson, reform
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Commentary: Student testing has lost its focus

By John Thompson
Apr 1, 2014

Tags: Commentary, core, education, gazette, huffpo, oklahoma, OPINION, public, schools, testings, this?, week
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Enterprise schools work best

By John Thompson
Jan 14, 2014

Tags: Commentary, charter, charters, children, chronic, city, corporate, disorder, education, enterprise, gazette, john, Kids, kipp, learn, lie, low-income, maps, needs, okc, okcps, oklahoma, poor, power program, privitize, schools, special, testing, thompson, weapon
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School values don’t fit into a single score

By John Thompson
Nov 19, 2013

Tags: Commentary, A-F, accountability, edmond, gazette, grades, john, okc, oklahoma, opinion, out-of-school, poor, public, scholars, thompson
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‘No tolerance’ doesn’t teach

By John Thompson
Oct 1, 2013

Tags: Commentary, administration, administrators, alternative, education, gazette, health, john, Kids, maps, marshall, mid-high, Needs Assessment, okcps, oklahoma, pregnancy, public, respect, schools, students, teachers, thompson, violence
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OKC schools need real change

By John Thompson
Aug 27, 2013

Tags: Commentary, city, curriculum, education, expectations, gazette, great, karl, must, okcps, oklahoma, public, retire, school, schools, springer, teach
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Avoiding a fiasco in education

By John Thompson
Jul 16, 2013

Tags: Commentary, barresi, city, common, education, janet, okc, oklahoma, opinion, schools, states, testing, tests
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Common sense about Common Core

By John Thompson
May 7, 2013

Tags: Commentary, classes, common core, education, okc, oklahoma, Oklahoma City, op-ed, opinion, public schools, reform, schools, tests
Letters to the Editor

Embracing early childhood education

By John Thompson
Mar 6, 2013

Tags: Letters to the Editor, classes, early childhood education, education, letter to the editor, Obama, okc, oklahoma, Oklahoma City, pre-k, pre-kindergarten, schools, white house
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The fallacy of test-driven school reform

By John Thompson
Jan 15, 2013

Tags: Commentary, A-F, classes, editorial, education, no child left behind, okc, Oklahoma City, op-ed, OPINION, school