State will benefit from Oklahoma Innovation Index

 
BY STATE SEN. CLARK JOLLEY
Published: February 8, 2012

Oklahoma high school graduates compete against the world for jobs. To succeed, they can’t show only memorization of basic knowledge — they must demonstrate how they use that knowledge in creative and innovative ways. Yet many of our policies have focused solely on what can be measured on a written test.

Ken Robinson, a renowned creativity expert, begins many of his presentations by asking, “How many of you believ...


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