WASHINGTON, D.C. – An University of Oklahoma professor who says the university’s initiatives in rural Oklahoma schools are making a difference went to Washington recently to lobby for more money where...
WASHINGTON - National Teacher of the Year winner Rebecka Peterson—a high school math instructor in Tulsa—championed a unifying message of hope as her profession faces a stifling staffing shortage.
Peterson,...
WASHINGTON – As a teacher shortage crisis worsens in the U.S. three years after the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, national and state education leaders said a structural disruption is creating shortages...
Sovereign Community School is looking for ways to continue teaching Native American youth after being notified their funding could end in June.
Members of the State Board of Education voted Jan. 26...
Educators across Oklahoma were left trying to figure out the premise and purpose of House Bill 1775, adopted in 2021, which prompted six pages of emergency rules connected to an academic field known as...
With no manual or list of emergency procedures, school boards across the country were each in a unique position to build district plans and decide what was best for their communities as the COVID-19 pandemic...
When Kyle Reynolds, superintendent of Woodward Public Schools saw that the book Fahrenheit 451 was on a list of books under review by the Oklahoma Attorney General, he thought “There's Irony in That.”
Fahrenheit...
Immigrants have been among the most-affected by the turbulent political climate of recent years. But Prairie Vale Elementary School in the Deer Creek School District has maintained its promise to be a...
Universities across Oklahoma have adjusted their fall and spring semester calendars as COVID-19 continues to surge. Now some students are feeling stressed about it.
Oklahoma State University and the...
WASHINGTON — Overworked and underpaid. This is the life of a teacher working the front lines of a global pandemic.
Elizabeth Scott teaches English at Edmond North High School and said that the risk...
When the University of Oklahoma Sooners kick off their season Saturday night against Missouri State, the stadium will feel empty, but nearby Campus Corner will not.
OU is limiting attendance inside...
With Covid-19 abruptly forcing the remainder of the spring college semester to virtual learning through technologies such as Zoom or Skype, some faculty have struggled to make the transition smooth.
College...
