by Byron Schlomach | May 20, 2020 | Blog
Life or death circumstances can bring out the best in people or the worst in people. They definitely expose the hypocrisy in people. The COVID-19 crisis has done this in spades. And we have an example playing out in Oklahoma right now with a bill that has gone to...
by Byron Schlomach | May 13, 2020 | Blog
Several months ago, 1889 Institute published Education Reforms to Make a Difference in which six fundamental institutional reforms to public education in Oklahoma were suggested. Now we publish More Education Reforms to Make a Difference, which suggests six more...
by Byron Schlomach | May 13, 2020 | Research
More Education Reforms to Make a Difference Author Byron Schlomach Abstract Byron Schlomach argues for institutional reforms in education, including appointment of Oklahoma’s Superintendent of Public Instruction, passing a meaningful anti-strike law and...
by Byron Schlomach | May 4, 2020 | Blog
Oklahoma is opening up in stages at last, thank goodness. While we have thought, from the beginning, that shutdowns have been a bad idea, what’s done is done. Now is the time to start recovering, and the faster we get fully re-opened (with prudent precautions for the...
by Byron Schlomach | Apr 29, 2020 | Blog
After more than a month of COVID-19 house arrest, Oklahoma is reopening. However, the government-created economic disaster that shutdown orders have caused will be studied by epidemiologists, economists, and other social scientists for decades to come. In the...