Oklahoma City Public Schools, specifically inner-city high schools, will never be able to compete against schools in Edmond, Moore, Norman, Mid-Del and others because the most important product — a quality education — is perceived as subpar by the residents in those districts. Take, for example, the John Marshall effect. The boundaries that include John […]
Kevin Connolly
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Accept food stamps
As a history and English major from Cornell University in 1978, Bill Maher is obviously educated, but is an intellectual joke. In Phil Bacharach’s cover story “‘Real Time,’ red state” (March 16), Maher accuses taxpayers of just not getting it. According to CNNMoney.com, “the top fifth of households made 56 percent of pre-tax income in […]
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Oh, snap!
In his Gazette Commentary (“Counterpoint: Recovery and redemption,” Nov. 10), Kurt Hochenauer explains the Democratic Party needs to recover and redeem itself. Fortunately, redeeming itself with the same message and recovering by implementing the same means will continually face failure here. Instead of using “recover” and “redemption,” Hochenauer should have used the true R&R: reality […]