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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

• Country Singer Slim Whitman, Known For His Yodel, Dies Whitman used to be known as "America's Favorite Folksinger," but he was far more popular overseas.
• "Suffering On A Huge Scale": World Refugee Numbers Swell The U.N. says about 45 million people are refugees — the most since 1994. Nearly half are children.
• Oops. Wrong Birth Year Fixed On NYC Mayor Koch's Tombstone Late New York City Mayor Ed Koch's tombstone lists incorrect birth year of 1942 instead of 1924.
• FBI Director Says Agency Is Using Drones Over The U.S. Robert Mueller told the Senate the FBI used drones rarely and for surveillance proposes.
• Women And Children Caught In Middle Of Potato War The National Potato Council says the government discriminates against fresh, white potatoes.

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