At Southwestern Oklahoma State University in Weatherford, where he taught zoology and biology until retiring in 1996, he’d ask students to pull down a shade where there was no window. It’s all about helping students relax, he said. Today, Kirkland, 76, teaches animal biology as an adjunct for Oklahoma State University-Oklahoma City. The classroom is […]
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State questions 744 and 754 offer two sides of the same coin
Across the state this month, kindergarten through 12th-grade students and their teachers are returning to classrooms ” places, like elsewhere in state government, feeling the sting of decreased funding as a result of the recession. The 411 on 744 Show me the money Questioning a question According to Shelly Hickman, public affairs director for the […]
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Why is Robert Henry leaving his judge’s bench to become Oklahoma City University’s new president?
On a coffee table in Judge Robert Henry’s offices in downtown Oklahoma City, underneath a copy of the “centennial Quran” that made rounds through the state Legislature in 2007, lies an inconspicuous wood and glass case housing an array of letter openers ” gifts from friends and colleagues over the years.Paradigm shifts‘Renaissance Man’‘To the next […]
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Douglass High School’s principal works to improve OKC school one student at a time
When Douglass High School Principal Brian Staples first entered an Oklahoma City public school as a student teacher almost 20 years ago, he asked if he could take over teaching the class on the second day and was “hooked.” BENCHMARK COLLEGE COURSES DAIRY FARM He spent the next five years teaching science at the same […]
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Douglass High School’s principal works to improve OKC school one student at a time
When Douglass High School Principal Brian Staples first entered an Oklahoma City public school as a student teacher almost 20 years ago, he asked if he could take over teaching the class on the second day and was “hooked.” BENCHMARK COLLEGE COURSES DAIRY FARM He spent the next five years teaching science at the same […]
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Single frontier women took part in Oklahoma 1893 land run
Bang! A woman wearing a long black dress dropped the gun she’d fired at the pesky reporter who’d ventured too close to her Cherokee Outlet claim. She and the other women watching ran for their tents. The anonymous writer, hoping for a scoop for his Kansas newspaper, pressed on, unscathed. STORY OF A STORY SINGLES […]
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OKC’s enterprise schools are not the same as charter schools
osing to pull out of public school. “I’m not happy with separating them (students) off in a corner behind a beautiful iron gate where other children can’t go.” But, she added, “I received telephone calls that were full of people screaming at me. I’m just a citizen trying to help. I don’t need that.” ADVOCATES […]
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Fifty years ago, Oklahoma City activists stood up by sitting down
On a sweltering summer night, Clara Luper was preparing grape Kool-Aid and cold-cut sandwiches in her un-air-conditioned Oklahoma City home when one of the children there changed an inauspicious NAACP Youth Council meeting into history in the making. “Anyplace we can go downtown and eat and get a Coke? Why don’t we go downtown and […]
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Oklahoma City Astronomy Club has a place to call its own
In early 1958, 200 people turned out near a dark field outside town to get a glimpse of Sputnik as it crossed the metro’s skies. Thirty amateur astronomers officially keeping track of the craft’s progress as part of the national “Moonwatch” program aimed 10 telescopes at the sky to spot it. Then someone pulled in […]
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OKCPS board chairman-elect talks about MAPS for Kids
Former Oklahoma City Mayor Kirk Humphreys likes to quote a saying he gleaned from another metro mover and shaker: “Never climb a ladder leaning toward you; never kiss a girl leaning away from you; and never run for school board.” JOINING THE BOARD CUSTOMERS MAPS FOR KIDS It is, of course, advice the one-time Putnam […]