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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)
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Statehouse News Bureau

The Statehouse News Bureau provides educational, comprehensive coverage of legislation, elections, issues and other activities surrounding the Statehouse to Ohio's public radio and television stations.

NPR Headlines

• Nina Totenberg Answers Your Supreme Court Questions Find out how the justices decide who writes the big opinions — and if they hang out after work.
• Tropical Storm Barry Heads Toward Mexico, Forecasters Say The second named storm of the 2013 hurricane season is heading west toward southern Mexico.
• And The Winner Of The World Food Prize Is ... The Man From Monsanto Winner Robert Fraley, a pioneer of GMO crops, personifies Monsanto's divisive role in agriculture.
• After A Marine's Suicide, A Family Recalls Missed Red Flags Before Nick Rodriguez's death, his family had never heard of post-traumatic stress disorder.
• Vaccine Against HPV Has Cut Infections in Teenage Girls Vaccination against a virus causing cervical cancer appears to be working, despite slow acceptance.

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