John Thompson: What Is the Best Way to Improve Oklahoma’s Public Schools?

John Thompson: What Is the Best Way to Improve Oklahoma’s Public Schools?

John Thompson, retired teacher and historian in Oklahoma, considers ideas about how to improve Oklahoma’s schools, but insists that one overlooked cause of lower academic progress, was the torrent of misguided mandates written in Washington, D.C., such as No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top. Thompson writes: Despite our disagreements on some policies and research methodologies, I have respect for Adam Tyner, the executive director of the Ok…