Just Say a Few Words By Ron Page My Ashton, High School class reunion is coming up in just over two weeks. Ashton is up in northern Illinois not far from the Wisconsin border and I don’t get up there as often as I should. My cousin, Wayne Page, and his son, Kyle, do a […]

Exemplary Lessons in Education – Fred Morgan I have heard from the business community that Oklahoma’s education system is not preparing all students for 21st century jobs. We know there are numerous reasons for this skills gap, and we know there is no silver bullet to fix it. We also know segments of change are […]

The Teacher Pay Crisis: What Can You Do? You might say that teaching as a career is in my blood.  My great great grandfather, Henry Wilson Kennon, moved his family to Indian Territory in the 1870’s to teach settlers’ children in the area.  His daughter, Mattie Hanson Kennon, became a circuit teacher.  She told many […]

HOW’S IT MADE? by Leonard Sullivan Young people today do not know where things come from, or how they are made. Example, we picked cotton so we knew where cotton for our clothing originated. We went to the chicken pen with a long stiff wire with a hook on one end and hooked a chicken […]