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Alpha Plus Blog: Alpha Plus News, Materials, Partners, and Education Mateirals

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Our latest press releases, and Oklahoma Education news. Subscribe for our teaching tips and resources for school improvement.

Point of View: National curriculum ignores Oklahoma academic standards

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Our CEO, Jan Barrick's column in The Oklahoman: "The crux of the matter is simple. We can have the best standards ever written, but if they aren’t being used, nothing changes. When students use textbooks written for Common Core, they are not prepared for the questions that will be asked by the state of Oklahoma in the spring."

Article published Wed., Dec 18, 2019
by Jan Barrick
In The Oklahoman

There’s an old expression that goes like this: “If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always gotten.”

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The Common Culprit: National Curriculum Ignores Oklahoma Academic Standards

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There’s an old expression that goes like this: “If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always gotten.”

While Henry Ford is credited with this wisdom, evidence of it can be seen clearly in public education in Oklahoma.

Like a distinct scratch on a broken record, we recently heard results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress show test scores on the decline nationally.

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Oklahoma New state budget backs concurrent enrollment program

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More than $13 million of the total budget is being designated to fund concurrent enrollment to help state colleges pay for high school seniors to take college classes, an increase of nearly $3.3 million ahead of last year.

Read more in the Oklahoman online article: Click here

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OSTP Assessment and Data Literacy Guide

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Here's the link for the OSTP English Language Arts Data and Interpretation Guidebook: Click here

But, wait, there's more! ... Here's the official Performance Level "cut scores" : Click here

 

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Why Alpha Plus Schools Are Successful

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Why are Alpha Plus schools successful?

The biggest reason is that our curriculum is written by Oklahoma teachers, for Oklahoma teachers, to Oklahoma standards.

Our schools do not use Common Core, which is failing school districts across the country.

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We Use Data to Help Schools on the Way to an A!

Teachers and administrators can quickly and easily identify students who need more help learning the Oklahoma Academic Standards.

Alpha Plus pinpoints the SPECIFIC OAS objectives or "gaps" students have from previous years, then helps school teams address each objective throughout the year.

That is why Alpha Plus schools have OUTPERFORMED the state average every year of the A-F Report Cards.