Now That SQ 744 Has Tanked, What To Do About Common Education

[Townsend]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/11/state-education-rankings-_n_894528.html

[AquaMan]

Arkansas better than OK. Man, that hurts.

[guido911]

Arkansas better than OK. Man, that hurts.

Like I wrote earlier, ever since that Atlanta teacher cheating scandal was discovered, I will never trust another attempt to compare state to state education quality. Hell, Georgia ranks higher than Oklahoma? For all we know, the fact that we are "blue" could mean Oklahoma is the most honest state.

[Gaspar]

It's like a competition on who sucks the least.  This survey is only related to science and engineering.

When it comms to spellin and talkin real good, were the tops!

[guido911]

It's like a competition on who sucks the least.  This survey is only related to science and engineering.

When it comms to spellin and talkin real good, were the tops!

And if those stats have any validity, does anyone wonder why I am tired of feeding the public education beast as it exists now?  

[heironymouspasparagus]

Oklahoma as the most honest state!

Wow!  That paints a picture!  Just when I lose all hope in guido, he comes up with something SO laughable that it just makes my day!

*chuckles*

Oklahoma... honest state.... LOL,LOL,LOL.... gotta laugh....

*more chuckles*

I love it!!

[custosnox]

Oklahoma as the most honest state!

Wow!  That paints a picture!  Just when I lose all hope in guido, he comes up with something SO laughable that it just makes my day!

*chuckles*

Oklahoma... honest state.... LOL,LOL,LOL.... gotta laugh....

*more chuckles*

I love it!!

Most honest, or most unable to get away with cheating?

[heironymouspasparagus]

It gets away with plenty of cheating.  Sadly.

[guido911]

Most honest, or most unable to get away with cheating?

Thanks for getting my point. Heiron is plainly losing it and may be on an aox watch.

[Teatownclown]

Thanks for getting my point. Heiron is plainly losing it and may be on an aox watch.

REMINDER! Abnormal is the new normal.

[heironymouspasparagus]

Ahhh...how tragically hip!

Irony, right??  Yeah...I thought so...

[guido911]

No more free school bus rides--at least in one North Texas town.  Awww.

http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2011/07/18/north-texas-students-may-have-to-pay-to-ride-school-bus/

I loved the point that one student lived a whopping two miles from a school.

[Townsend]

It sucks to be one of the states followed up with "Why should we help them?".  As in, "Oklahoma?  Pfffft.  Why should we help them?"

Oklahoma loses out in Race to the Top funding

WASHINGTON – For the third time, Oklahoma came up short Friday in the Obama administration's competition for school reform funds.

This round of Race to the Top funding was focused on early learning, and the state's record in that area was expected to give it a boost.

Tulsan George Kaiser made that point last May when he joined Education Secretary Arne Duncan and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius at a Washington, D.C., event to roll out the latest round of the competition.

The program was giving away $500 million in this round, and Oklahoma was competing for $60 million for early childhood education.
On Friday, Duncan and Sebelius announced the nine winners: California, Delaware, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Carolina, Ohio, Rhode Island and Washington.

Read more from this Tulsa World article at http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=16&articleid=20111216_19_0_WASHIN264266

[AquaMan]

Judging by where they rated on the map, it looks like only two states, CA and NC were below average in the rankings. The others were at or above average. How do those states rank in red/blue colors? Maybe that was the real criteria. Or maybe it had something to do with the combative nature of our State Superintendent Janet Barresi?

[guido911]

It's a bit older, but this is what one police officer's idea is as to what to do with common education: