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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

• Amazon Cuts Ties In Minnesota Ahead Of New Sales Tax Amazon ended contracts of people and businesses that are paid to send customers to the retailer.
• Boehner Seeks To Reassure House GOP On Immigration Boehner told fellow Republicans an immigration bill would need majority House GOP support.
• Google Files First-Amendment Request With FISA Court Last week, Google asked the government to let it publish data about national security requests.
• A Field Guide To Jimmy Hoffa Searches The search for Jimmy Hoffa's body has taken investigators on numerous wild goose chases.
• Perk Backlash: Do Surprise Upgrades Make Us Uneasy? When we get perks we didn't earn, negative feelings can cut into the good will from the surprise.

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