This might require enlisting the help of private sector literacy providers so the institutions' reading teachers can learn and implement phonics instruction. Public schools could implement intensive, systematic phonics reading instruction. The reading portion of PASS reads like a veritable whole language training manual, which means that whole language is in a sense being mandated statewide right now. There wouldn't be any remedial reading cases if we started teaching reading instead of guessing in the first grade. Schools of education in Oklahoma's colleges and universities could start offering their students instruction in teaching phonics.
Schools ought to implement zero tolerance of disruptive behavior.
Disruptive students don't have the right to interfere with the education of well-behaved students. Schools should remove disruptive students, and send them to alternative school if necessary. Public policies, especially with respect to taxation and welfare, ought to encourage, rather than penalize, stable marriages and families. OCPA recommended in July 1994, and continues to recommend, trying juveniles as adults for serious offenses, administering corporal punishment in appropriate cases, and allowing judges to consider juvenile criminal histories in adult sentencing.