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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:
- Grading the Teachers: The Sound of Ideas Takes on Teacher Evaluation, Value Added cogdogblog / Flickr Tomorrow at 9 a.m. WCPN’s talk show The Sound of Ideas will take on the topic of teacher evaluations and Ohio’s use of a statistical, test-based measure called... (more)
- Grading the Teachers: Where the "Most Effective" Teachers Are (MAP) This map shows how many of the teachers at each school received the state’s top value-added rating of “Most Effective.” Value-added is a statistical measure that looks at how much students... (more)
- Grading the Teachers: Teachers in Richer Schools Score Higher on Value-Added Measure Value-added was supposed to be the great equalizer — a measure of schools that would finally judge fairly how much poor students are learning compared with their wealthier peers. Meant... (more)
- More features from StateImpact Ohio
Education Headlines
Home-Schooled Students Fight To Play On Public School Teams They're able to play in about half of U.S. states, but a compromise in Indiana hasn't eased debate.- New Report Finds Many Teachers Aren't Ready To Teach
Study: Teacher Prep Programs Get Failing Marks Out of more than 1,100 schools of education, 163 provide "substandard training," a new study says.- Dear Harvard, My Career Deserved More Respect
New Ads Still Warn A Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Waste The United Negro College Fund's new campaign shows how much the way we talk about race has changed.
ideastream Education Funding
Funding for the coverage of education topics comes from The Alcoa Foundation; Eaton Corporation Charitable Foundation; The GAR Foundation; The George Gund Foundation; The George W. Codrington Charitable Foundation; The Hershey Foundation; The Kelvin and Eleanor Smith Foundation; NACCO Industries, Inc.; The Nord Family Foundation; Parker Hannifin Foundation; The Stocker Foundation; and The Cleveland Foundation.
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