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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

• Tick Tock: Make The Serve, Pitch, Putt Or Shot In baseball, golf and tennis we are being lulled to sleep before every pitch, every shot.
• U.S. Automakers Are On A Roll, But Hiring Is Slow And Steady Profits are up and U.S. car plants are buzzing, but that hasn't sparked a hiring frenzy.
• Fashion's Victims: An Artist's Focus On Garment Workers A Spanish artist is drawing attention to factory conditions in the wake of the Bangladesh collapse.
• How A Merger Could Affect Congress' Favorite Airport Lawmakers don't want to lose flights at Reagan National if US Airways and American Airlines combine.
• Parvum Opus: Followers Flock To Pope's Latin Twitter Feed Against all expectations, the account gained more than 100,000 followers in less than six months.

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