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A Homefront Mission for Iraq War Vets
Regional News Stories
Posted November 4, 2008
Recently returned veterans from Iraq are being deployed on a new mission: Operation Forward Democracy
Ballot Issues Face Tough Economic Times
Regional News Stories
Posted November 2, 2008
Pocketbook issues vie for voter attention on November 4th.
More Students Attending College In Ohio
Regional News Stories
Posted October 23, 2008
For the second straight year, the number of students at state-supported universities and community colleges in Ohio is up.
Construction And Hiring Freezes At Miami University Of Ohio
Regional News Stories
Posted October 23, 2008
Campus construction and faculty hiring are being frozen at Miami University of Ohio. The school blames the economy.
An Ohio GOP Congressional Seat for more than 60 years that could go Democratic
The Sound of Ideas
Posted October 22, 2008
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:
- How is Value-Added Calculated? In reading and listening to our recent series of stories with The Cleveland Plain Dealer about how Ohio is using a statistical measure called value-added to measure whether teachers provide a year’s... (more)
- 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)
- 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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