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Oklahoma’s reading outcomes “now rank among the worst in the country even at a time when results have fallen nationwide,” Ray Carter recently reported. According to the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), Oklahoma’s fourth-graders this year have nearly one year less learning than their counterparts in 2019.
Read moreRepublican Oklahoma Sen. James Lankford has promised to block Department of Defense nominees until President Joe Biden’s administration explains the tens of thousands of religious accommodation requests it never granted or even answered.
Read moreSamuel Johnson’s “Dictionary of the English Language,” first published in 1755, defines the word “woman” as “the female of the human race.” And until October 2022, the word “woman” was still defined as “an adult female human being” in the Cambridge Dictionary. What transpired on the topic during the intervening 267 years? Not much. Science confirmed what men and women have known since Adam and Eve began talking past each other – not only do the sexes have immutable physiological differences, down to their genetic matter, but they observe, act and think differently as well.
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Leadership Hennessey seniors Leslie Carrillo (left) and Raven Bedford wrap presents for their 2022 Reserve Police Angel child. These HHS seniors are missing the third member of their team, Tyson Chalmers, who was helping a team of boys who’d never wrapped presents. The two girls also won the “Solemn” awards and were encouraged to smile and talk more, especially during their internships. Carrillo is interning at Royal Signs as a graphic artist, and Bedford at the Hennessey Police Department as an officer in the school’s new internship program this year. [Photo provided]
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Christmas is just around the corner. What a joyous time of year. I love the displays of lights, the music, the general cheerfulness in the air, the anticipation of spending time with family and the food. But most of all, I’m reminded of the gift of a Savior to the world. For that I am most grateful.
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