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Recent Education Coverage from ideastream
Cheating in Schools
The Sound of Ideas
Posted May 17, 2012
Why students and educators are motivated to cheat in an era of high stakes testing.
Changing Gears: Structural Change
Regional News Stories
Posted May 9, 2012
What happens to transformed Midwest economy when we recover from recession?
Senate Panel Waters Down Governor’s Plan To Hold Back Non-Readers
Regional News Stories
Posted May 8, 2012
A proposal to hold back Ohio third graders who can't read has been softened - a move that frustrates Governor Kasich.
International Children’s Festival, Road Trip! and New Ground Theatre Festival
Around Noon
Posted May 2, 2012
Dee Perry remembers the late Colleen Porter director of The International Children's Festival which is happening this week at PlayhouseSquare. Plus we take the first Road Trip! - a new weekly travel series from The Ohio Humanities Council. And we hear from Pulitzer-Prize-winning playwright Quiara Alegría Hudes, who is serving a week-long residency at Cleveland Play House as part of New Ground Theatre Festival.
12th Grade Overhaul
The Sound of Ideas
Posted May 2, 2012
A look at whether 12th grade is missing the mark.
StateImpact Ohio
StateImpact Ohio is a collaboration among WCPN, WKSU, WOSU and NPR. Reporters Molly Bloom and Ida Lieszkovszky travel the state to report on the state of education in Ohio, where it’s heading and how it affects you. Read their reports on this site and listen to them on public radio stations across Ohio.
- Recent StateImpact Ohio Features:
- Readers Say Post Secondary Classes Won't Fix Senior Year While high school seniors don their graduation robes, education officials at the Ohio Department of Education mull over how to improve the final year of high school and make it... (more)
- Advice From Recent College Grads: Don't Major in the Humanities Nimish Gogri / Flickr Rutgers University researchers surveyed recent college graduates about what they would have done differently in college. The most common answer was pick a different major. About 37... (more)
- Go to Ohio State, Learn About Vampires, Twilight and the Nature of Evil Janet / Flickr We’ve written before about unusual classes, like those on zombies and pornography – separately. Scanning Ohio State University’s course offerings, another course came to our attention. Ohio State offers... (more)
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