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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 Surprising Barrier To Clean Water: Human Nature Getting clean water to people in the developing world isn't just an engineering problem.
• If Supplies Of Oil Are Up, Why Is Gas Still Pricey? An average gallon of regular gasoline is still running above $3.62 nationwide.
• How Ted Cruz's Father Shaped His Views On Immigration The Texas senator often uses his Cuban-born father's story to argue against what he sees as amnesty.
• Translated Into Navajo, Star Wars Will Be The Navajo Nation and Lucasfilm have teamed up to translate the original Star Wars into Navajo.
• What Makes Rituals Special? Join Us For A Google+ Conversation NPR's Shankar Vedantam talks with behavior scientist Francesca Gino about the rituals of our lives.

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