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Did You Know? Bessie Coleman: Her Dreams Were in the Sky

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DID YOU KNOW?
By Jan Barrick, CEO, Alpha Plus.
Featuring a passage about Oklahoma history from the Success with OAS series.
 

In Oklahoma history, Bessie Coleman was just a freshman attending the Colored Agricultural and Normal University at Langston in the early 1900s. She went on to become the first black woman and the first Native American woman to receive an international pilot’s license. Read more in this sneak peek of our 6th grade ELA book!

 Her Dreams Were in the Sky

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Did You Know? Capitals and the Capitol

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DID YOU KNOW?
By Jan Barrick, CEO, Alpha Plus.
Featuring a passage about Oklahoma history from the Success with OAS series.

DID YOU KNOW?

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DID YOU KNOW: The Musical "Oklahoma!"

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DID YOU KNOW? 

In Oklahoma history, the musical Oklahoma! is one of the most popular Broadway musicals of all time. Based on the 1931 play, Green Grow the Lilacs, the musical became a major motion picture in 1955.

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CONGRATULATIONS to PRUE PUBLIC SCHOOLS!

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Oklahoma Watch has a searchable database of last spring’s Oklahoma School Testing Program by grade level and subject area. When sorted by percentage of students proficient on the state test in English at Grade 8, Prue is ranked 3rd with 57 percent of students proficient! By the way, Prue’s proficiency in 8th grade ELA is more than double the state average of 25 percent.

Prue has been an Alpha Plus Partner School for both reading and math curriculum and assessments since 2013. Keep up the great work, Prue Rockets!

See all the scores at https://oklahomawatch.org/2022/10/11/new-data-shows-students-gaining-ground-but-still-below-pre-pandemic-in-core-subjects/

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Alpha Plus Books Are: HOT off the Presses!

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Alpha Plus Books are...HOT off the Presses!

Pictured standing behind another shipment of our books are Konrad Kosanke, our founder Jan Barrick, Stan Kosanke, and Kyler Kosanke. For more information about our books, please go to our books section.

 

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