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How a Water Conservation Idea Won Over Oklahoma Farmers www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/c...
How a Water Conservation Idea Won Over Oklahoma Farmers
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December 10, 2025 at 8:07 PM
How a Water Conservation Idea Won Over Oklahoma Farmers www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/c...
Abortion rights returned to Missouri one year ago. Access never did oklahomavoice.com/2025/12/09/r...
Abortion rights returned to Missouri one year ago. Access never did • Oklahoma Voice
Abortion rights became law one year ago in Missouri. How few abortions happened since illustrates the difficulty of rebuilding access once it's decimated.
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December 10, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Abortion rights returned to Missouri one year ago. Access never did oklahomavoice.com/2025/12/09/r...
Steve Schmidt: The Hegseth Ethos dianeravitch.net/2025/12/10/s...
Steve Schmidt: The Hegseth Ethos
Steve Schmidt is a veteran political strategist who worked for Republicans, most recently for John McCain in 2008. When Trump was elected, Schmidt was a co-founder of the anti-Trump Lincoln Project…
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December 10, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Steve Schmidt: The Hegseth Ethos dianeravitch.net/2025/12/10/s...
Heather Cox Richardson: Winning with Racism and Culture Wars dianeravitch.net/2025/12/10/h...
Heather Cox Richardson: Winning with Racism and Culture Wars
Historian Heather Cox Richardson explains the GOP formula for winning elections. It is columns like this that have caused 3,000,000 people to subscribe to her Substack. She writes: When G. Elliott …
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December 10, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Heather Cox Richardson: Winning with Racism and Culture Wars dianeravitch.net/2025/12/10/h...
Vandalism of Civil Rights statue should remind Oklahomans that our work isn’t done oklahomavoice.com/2025/12/10/v...
Vandalism of Civil Rights statue should remind Oklahomans that our work isn't done • Oklahoma Voice
I found myself greatly disturbed by the despicable act of vandalism to the new monument in downtown Oklahoma City designed to celebrate our city’s historic role in our nation’s sit-in movement.
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December 10, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Vandalism of Civil Rights statue should remind Oklahomans that our work isn’t done oklahomavoice.com/2025/12/10/v...
Oklahoma business leaders comparing public schools to college football need some coaching themselves oklahomavoice.com/2025/12/08/o...
Oklahoma business leaders comparing public schools to college football need some coaching themselves • Oklahoma Voice
Oklahoma’s state Chamber of Commerce needs to step aside and stop meddling in something they clearly know nothing about: education.
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December 8, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Oklahoma business leaders comparing public schools to college football need some coaching themselves oklahomavoice.com/2025/12/08/o...
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Opinion | How One Student’s Failing Grade Became a Cause Célèbre on the Right
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December 7, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/06/o...
"Take the Time" Pastoral Prayer
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"Take the Time" Pastoral Prayer
We’re not sure where You get Your news these days, Holy One. . .
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December 7, 2025 at 1:42 PM
"Take the Time" Pastoral Prayer
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December 6, 2025
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December 6, 2025
On the sunny Sunday morning of December 7, 1941, Messman Doris Miller had served breakfast aboard the USS West Virginia, stationed in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and was collecting laundry when the first of...
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Standardized tests were built for a world that's gone | Olli-Pekka Heinonen tulsaworld.com/opinion/colu...
Standardized tests were built for a world that's gone | Olli-Pekka Heinonen
For more than a century, American education has been driven by the same invisible engine: standardization. Rows of desks. National tests. Rankings.
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December 6, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Standardized tests were built for a world that's gone | Olli-Pekka Heinonen tulsaworld.com/opinion/colu...
Why an Advocate of High-Stakes Testing and School Choice Did a 180 dianeravitch.net/2025/12/05/w...
Why an Advocate of High-Stakes Testing and School Choice Did a 180
I was interviewed by Brian Lehrer of WNYC, public radio about my latest book, probably my last. He is a great interviewer. He asks good questions, followed by people who called in to disagree with …
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December 5, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Why an Advocate of High-Stakes Testing and School Choice Did a 180 dianeravitch.net/2025/12/05/w...
December 3, 2025
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December 3, 2025
Republican Matt Van Epps won yesterday’s special election in Tennessee’s seventh congressional district, but Republicans aren’t celebrating triumphantly.
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December 3, 2025
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Gary Rubinstein Reviews "An Education" with Gusto! dianeravitch.net/2025/12/04/g...
Gary Rubinstein Reviews “An Education” with Gusto!
Gary Rubinstein is a teacher of mathematics at Stuyvesant High School in NYC and a prominent critic of corporate reform. He started his career as one of the first corps members of Teach for America…
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December 4, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Gary Rubinstein Reviews "An Education" with Gusto! dianeravitch.net/2025/12/04/g...
Our Pressure Cooker Schools Are Destroying Children and Childhood dianeravitch.net/2025/12/01/o...
Our Pressure Cooker Schools Are Destroying Children and Childhood
The New York Times Sunday Magazine published an article titled “America’s Children Are Unwell. Are Schools Part of the Problem?” It was written by staff member Jia Lynn Yang. I an…
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December 2, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Our Pressure Cooker Schools Are Destroying Children and Childhood dianeravitch.net/2025/12/01/o...
Iranian Professor in Oklahoma Released 3 Days After His Detention by ICE www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...
Iranian Professor in Oklahoma Released 3 Days After His Detention by ICE
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December 2, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Iranian Professor in Oklahoma Released 3 Days After His Detention by ICE www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...
Just Finished Diane Ravitch’s New Book tultican.com/2025/11/25/j...
Just Finished Diane Ravitch’s New Book
By Thomas Ultican 11/25/2025 An Education; How I Changed My Mind About Schools and Almost Everything Else, is highly recommended especially for the thousands of us who consider her a friend. Diane …
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December 2, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Just Finished Diane Ravitch’s New Book tultican.com/2025/11/25/j...
Tom Ultican Reviews My New Book, with Some Personal Reflections dianeravitch.net/2025/12/02/t...
Tom Ultican Reviews My New Book, with Some Personal Reflections
Tom Ultican had a successful career in the private sector when he made a decision that changed his life: He became a teacher of physics and advanced mathematics in California. After he retired, he …
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December 2, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Tom Ultican Reviews My New Book, with Some Personal Reflections dianeravitch.net/2025/12/02/t...
Our Pressure Cooker Schools Are Destroying Children and Childhood dianeravitch.net/2025/12/01/o...
Our Pressure Cooker Schools Are Destroying Children and Childhood
The New York Times Sunday Magazine published an article titled “America’s Children Are Unwell. Are Schools Part of the Problem?” It was written by staff member Jia Lynn Yang. I an…
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December 1, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Our Pressure Cooker Schools Are Destroying Children and Childhood dianeravitch.net/2025/12/01/o...
Carol Burris: Another Religious Charter School Applies for Public Funding in Oklahoma, Backed by For-Profit Corporation dianeravitch.net/2025/12/01/c...
Carol Burris: Another Religious Charter School Applies for Public Funding in Oklahoma, Backed by For-Profit Corporation
In this post, Carol Burris reviews the latest challenge to separation of church and state. A religious school has applied for public funding as an online charter school. But that’s not all: t…
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December 1, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Carol Burris: Another Religious Charter School Applies for Public Funding in Oklahoma, Backed by For-Profit Corporation dianeravitch.net/2025/12/01/c...
November 29, 2025
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November 29, 2025
In the wake of yesterday’s report from Alex Horton and Ellen Nakashima of the Washington Post that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered Special Operations to kill the survivors of a September 2 stri...
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As Trump’s popularity continues to drop, the MAGA coalition shows signs of cracking, and Trump’s mental acuity slips, there is a frantic feel to the administration, as if Trump’s people are trying to ...
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The 1991 Film About Trump That Was Banned dianeravitch.net/2025/11/28/t...
The 1991 Film About Trump That Was Banned
Since the day after Thanksgiving is usually a quiet day with not much to do, it seemed like a good day to share this film. It was made in 1991. But it was never released because Donald Trump threat…
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November 28, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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Happy Thanksgiving! Thoughts for 2025, Now dianeravitch.net/2025/11/27/h...
Happy Thanksgiving! Thoughts for 2025, Now
Let us be thankful for the good things in our lives. Our families and friends. Health. Food. The blessings of freedom and democracy, which we must defend every day. Let us think about those who do …
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November 27, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Happy Thanksgiving! Thoughts for 2025, Now dianeravitch.net/2025/11/27/h...
We Will Never Learn What Is in the Epstein Files dianeravitch.net/2025/11/26/w...
We Will Never Learn What Is in the Epstein Files
Many powerful people have a vested interest in making sure that the public never sees what and who is in the Epstein files. Democrats, Republicans, powerful corporate leaders. They prefer to keep t…
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November 26, 2025 at 9:40 PM
We Will Never Learn What Is in the Epstein Files dianeravitch.net/2025/11/26/w...
RFK Jr. Quietly Hires Anti-Vax Extremist as #2 at CDC dianeravitch.net/2025/11/26/r...
RFK Jr. Quietly Hires Anti-Vax Extremist as #2 at CDC
Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. quietly installed an anti-vax extremist as #2 at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Dr. Ralph Lee Abraham is both a doctor …
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November 26, 2025 at 4:24 PM
RFK Jr. Quietly Hires Anti-Vax Extremist as #2 at CDC dianeravitch.net/2025/11/26/r...