Oklahoma City’s Jamie Polk illustrates greatness and grace at InspireOK 2025
Oklahoma City’s Jamie Polk illustrates greatness and grace at InspireOK 2025
Oklahoma takes a step back for education’s future
The July 2024 change in cut scores for state tests of English and math involves complicated statistical analyses into which few would delve. For Oklahoma Secretary of Education Nellie Tayloe Sanders, however, it is personal.
What does lowering cut scores on state tests in 2024 mean in 2025?
For years, I had a bad habit of celebrating even small improvements in student proficiency on state tests because it requires a LOT of hard work by a dedicated team and CAN mean a school community takes seriously what is required.
Unfortunately, the data that triggers Oklahoma’s school-improvement process may no longer be valid or reliable. …
Master of the arts, Chandler business owner launches Project 45
One of Pratt Creative’s goals is to highlight the work of other Oklahomans who are true believers in our state and working to make it better. Our first one was Mark Danker of Project 45 in Chandler.
The good news in the bad news about Oklahoma’s low-performing schools
Good news from the State Department of Education that 13 Tulsa Public School sites have “exited” designation as Comprehensive Support and Improvement (CSI) schools. Sadly, few people realize how difficult this is to achieve. Every school improving student success deserves accolades for the hard work and dedication because it does not happen otherwise. …
Notable K-12 progress in peer state reveals solutions for Oklahoma
Can you guess the only state that had more students proficient in 2024 than before the pandemic? No, it wasn't Massachusett.
Oklahoma’s performance on the National Assessment of Educational Progress is depicted and Louisiana’s success analyzed.