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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

• Microsoft Responds To Fan Outcry, Changes Xbox One Policies Microsoft says a regular Internet connection will no longer be required and it can play used games.
• Federal Agents Accuse Two Of Plotting Deadly X-Ray Weapon The men allegedly planned to sell the device to either the Ku Klux Klan or Jewish groups.
• 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.
• Capitol Hill's Partisan And Racial Divide Cast In Bronze A statue of famed abolitionist Frederick Douglass finally lands a spot on Capitol Hill.
• 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.

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