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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:
• 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)
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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

• A Day After Making List, One Of FBI's Most Wanted Caught Walter Lee Williams made the FBI's Most Wanted list on charges of sexual exploitation of children.
• Snowden Reportedly In 'Informal' Asylum Talks With Iceland NSA leaker Edward Snowden has previously said Iceland is a country he would consider a safe haven.
• Infections From Contaminated Injections Can Lurk Undetected Steroid injections contaminated by fungus have now been found to cause spinal infections.
• Pitchman Who 'Guaranteed' Our Look Fired By Men's Warehouse The founder of Men's Warehouse is famous for his "I guarantee it," company slogan.
• U.S. Wants Global Trafficking Report To Hit Home Slavery may be a global problem, but it has implications for American consumers, too.

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