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Oklahoma’s online AP test scores exceed State and National Averages

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Students taking AP coursework through the state’s online Horizon program achieved higher test scores than both the state and national average, recent data revealed. Horizon: Digitally Enhanced Campus, a state organization providing online supplemental education to Oklahoma students, had class averages above the state and national averages in four of the five AP courses tested.

Reading, Writing and Road Rules: AAA Offers Lessons in Back-to-School Traffic Safety

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AAA has tips for back-toschool roadway safety as students return to the classrooms With the 2023-24 school year getting under way and students returning to campuses and classrooms, transportation will undoubtedly be impacted. Back-to-school transportation affects not only students and parents, but also other motorists, bicyclists and pedestrians using the roads.

Oklahoma Human Services announces new text notifications for SNAP, TANF and other benefits

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Oklahoma Human Services is excited to announce new text notifications for customers who receive benefi ts through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) and other assistance programs offered through the agency.

OU Legal Program undergoes name change

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The American Bar Association in 2020 exchanged the term legal assistant for “paralegal” in its definition of “a person qualified by education, training or work experience who is employed or retained by a lawyer, law office, corporation, governmental agency or other entity and who performs specifically delegated substantive legal work for which a lawyer is responsible.” The University of Oklahoma Law Center – having also received feedback from students, graduates and administrators – has followed suit, changing the name of the Department of Legal Assistant Education to Paralegal Studies.

TSET Health Promotion Research Center Postdoc receives an NIH Diversity Supplement

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Laili K. Boozary, PhD, a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the TSET Health Promotion Research Center (HPRC) at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, and her mentor, Jason A. Oliver, PhD, a researcher at the HPRC, recently received a diversity supplement for $109,638 from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA).