Starting salary isn’t the problem Your Chicken-Fried News piece (News, Chicken-Fried News, “More teachers needed,” July 23, Oklahoma Gazette) on low teacher pay has motivated me to share my two cents. I have been involved in Oklahoma education since 1968, when I began my teaching career at Ulysses S. Grant High School in Oklahoma City. […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Teachers needed
Oklahoma school districts are having trouble finding teachers.
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Go home, teacher; you’re drunk
Authorities took 30-yearold Chamberlain into custody after she appeared intoxicated and fell asleep at her desk. They claim her speech was slurred, she was a little wobbly and she smelled of Grandpa’s old cough medicine. Apparently, an empty whiskey bottle was also found in her purse. There are bigger issues at hand here: Doesn’t Chamberlain […]
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Wuss!
Played by Nate Rubin (Super), Mitch Parker is a wiry little fellow, barely out of high school himself, who substitutes for a high school English class. What he’d really like to do is be a novelist, of course, yet his off-hours are spent in a state of arrested development, playing Dungeons & Dragons with his […]
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Defining rape
Tyrone Nash Tyrone Nash was charged in September 2011 with five counts of second-degree rape and five counts of forcible oral sodomy for having an alleged sexual relationship with a student at Western Heights High School, where Nash was the physical education teacher and a coach. According to an affidavit in the case, the 33-year-old […]
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General Education
Then again, it might not. Levi Collins (Chris Sheffield, Transformers: Dark of the Moon) is a Rushmore-esque high school senior so smart-ass, he has a sidekick. He also has a full college scholarship for tennis, but that’s in danger when he flunks science. In order to save it, he has to attend summer school without […]
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Bad teacher
Credit: Brad Gregg A former Western Heights High School coach, the 33-year-old Nash faces five counts of second-degree rape and forcible oral sodomy after a 16-year-old student told police she had been having sex with him. The age of consent is 16 in Oklahoma unless it involves teachers and other school employees, an exception that […]
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Right-hand man
Joel Robison, who served as the Oklahoma Education Association’s lobbyist and associate executive director, succeeds former Chief of Staff Jennifer Carter, who decided not to return from maternity leave. Robison (pictured), a native of western Oklahoma, was an elementary school teacher in Oklahoma City before becoming an elected official with the state chapter of the […]
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Right-hand man
Joel Robison, who served as the Oklahoma Education Association’s lobbyist and associate executive director, succeeds former Chief of Staff Jennifer Carter, who decided not to return from maternity leave. Robison (pictured), a native of western Oklahoma, was an elementary school teacher in Oklahoma City before becoming an elected official with the state chapter of the […]
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Teachers, taxpayers told conflicting stories
Disappointed, because I know the difference a National Board Certified Teacher can make in a school and classroom. National Board Certification is believed to be one of the most studied interventions in the field of education. In the most rigorous and comprehensive study to date about National Board Certification, the nonpartisan National Research Council found […]