Statewide Education News
- Legislator refuses to rush changes to school-grading system (Dispatch)
Revamping how the state measures schools and district performance on annual report cards is too important and too complex to do on the fly, a state legislator says. House Education Committee Chairman Gerald L. Stebelton, R-Lancaster, said last night that he intends to strip from Gov. John Kasich’s proposed education overhaul a new and more-rigorous grading system. Read More…
National Stories of the Day
- Backer of Common Core School Curriculum Is Chosen to Lead College Board (New York Times)
- The National Teacher of the Year on what makes a great teacher (LA Times)
David Coleman, an architect of the common core curriculum standards that are being adopted in nearly all 50 states, will become the president of the College Board, starting in October. The College Board, a membership organization of high schools and colleges that administers the SAT, the Advanced Placement program and other standardized tests, helped design the standards — an outline of what students should learn in English and math from kindergarten through high school — meant to ensure that all high school graduates are prepared for college. Read More…
The class clown from Mr. Gadberry's high school art class has made good — and how. Rebecca Mieliwocki teaches seventh-grade English at Luther Burbank Middle School in Burbank — but not next year. Instead, she'll be on the road as the National Teacher of the Year. It took her a long time to get to the classroom — she once worked as a floral designer, doing the flowers for Elizabeth Taylor's private jet — and eventually to the White House, where a fellow teacher, President Obama, crowned her as a national teaching treasure. Before she takes off, Mieliwocki is speaking at commencement at her teaching alma mater, Cal State Northridge — and right here. Read More…
Local Issues
- NBC's 'Education Nation' to spotlight Steubenville's Wells Academy (WTOV-9)
- Hamilton student overcomes odds to graduate (Hamilton Journal News)
- Virginia Tech alumni talk with Chardon students (News Herald)
A Jefferson County school will represent a success story on NBC's "Education Nation," the network's initiative to engage the country in the state of education in the U.S. The profile on Wells Academy in Steubenville will focus on the school's Success For All program. Read More…
For four days, J’aime Murray’s sat in a hospital bed in a coma following surgery to remove a tumor from her brain stem. The only way her doctors could tell if she had voluntary brain function was when she moved her toes. Read More…
Few outside of Chardon could understand what that community has gone through since Feb. 27. One group that can relate to some degree includes those from the Virginia Tech campus. On Tuesday, representatives from the University's Actively Caring for People program stopped in Chardon to speak with students and staff from the high school. Read More…