Will Charters Really Try to Replace Suspensions With Win-Win Alternatives?
A year ago, the Oklahoma City Public School System (OKCPS) was stunned when the size of our racial “discipline gap” was revealed in Are We Closing the School Discipline Gap? by Daniel Losen et. al. of the Center for Civil Rights Remedies at the University of California, Los Angeles. The Oklahoma Gazette’s Ben Felder was […]
A Fight for the Very Soul of Our Country
It’s one of my proudest moments as a civics teacher — and I didn’t have to say a word: I had helped the students in my American history class prepare to debate whether the decision to drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was justified. But once the debate began, I just stepped back and […]