State Education News
- What makes a Grade A school? (Cincinnati Enquirer)
- Ohio schools face new grading system under proposed legislation (Cleveland Plain Dealer)
- Web tool would prescribe specific help for student (Columbus Dispatch)
- Lack of reading skills ‘alarming’ (Columbus Dispatch)
- Historical Society aiding students with documents (Columbus Dispatch)
- Ohio education reform bills moving this way (New Philadelphia Times)
As everyone knows, an A on a report card is good. An F is bad. And when it comes to a student’s progress, most parents are comfortable using those grades to determine their child’s academic strengths and weaknesses…Read more...
The House's passage of the latest Republican-backed education bill that implements a more demanding evaluation system for schools, along with other significant changes…Read more...
Reynoldsburg wants its teachers to be like doctors, diagnosing students’ academic ills and prescribing the right treatment…Read more...
As many as half of third-graders in some of Ohio’s largest urban school districts aren’t reading on grade level…Read more...
An educational program unveiled last week by the Ohio Historical Society is meant to help schools comply with a new state law requiring students in grades four to 12 to study the texts…Read more...
Two bills making their way through the Ohio Legislature will bring a number of changes to the way schools operate…Read more...
Local Education News
- Canton City schools offer low-cost adult education (Canton Repository)
- CPS adds student performance to teachers' grades (Cincinnati Enquirer)
- IRS does not miss a trick (Lorain Morning Journal)
- The quieting effects of phone (Lorain Morning Journal)
- Technology is put to good use (Newark Advocate)
- So far, so good for technology initiatives at other schools (Newark Advocate)
- Schools flip for technology (Toledo Blade)
- These schools aren’t allowed to fail (Toledo Blade)
- Deal nears to give parochial students public transportation (Youngstown Vindicator)
Tisha Mayle knew her mother was a high-school dropout. At 13 years old, Mayle remembers watching her mom studying and getting her General Educational Development diploma…Read more...
Junior-high math teacher Ken DeMann started doing something new this year for students at Roberts Paideia Academy. He sends home a folder each week updating parents on how well each student did on homework, behavior and participation that week…Read more...
School boards in Columbiana County and around Ohio will soon be requiring the people who work their sporting events be classified as part-time district employees…Read more...
A school board member believes they should reconsider a ban on students using cell phones while riding buses to and from games and other events…Read more...
Chandler Eriksen and Keith Seymour have been preparing to take their classmates on a journey to the planet’s core…Read more...
Ever since all Licking Valley High School students received laptops earlier this year, Principal Wes Weaver has noticed something unexpected…Read more...
From chalkboards to smart boards, text books to e-books and worksheets to web applications, technology has fundamentally transformed the way teachers teach and students learn…Read more...
The failure of too many at-risk students in low-income schools — in Toledo, in Ohio, and across the country…Read more...
The city school district is nearing a settlement with parochial school parents whose children weren’t transported to school last year…Read more...
Editorial
- Dropouts (Cincinnati Enquirer)
- Passing grade (Columbus Dispatch)
- Making the grade (Toledo Blade)
- Graduation gap (Toledo Blade)
Former Assistant Secretary of Education Chester E. Finn Jr. once wrote, “Kindergarten is not too early to address the dropout problem.”...Read more...
A clear commitment by Ohio Senate Republicans that a new school-report-card system will give districts equal credit for preparing kids for careers…Read more...
Charter schools promise to push traditional public schools to do better. They are designed to give parents a high-quality alternative to schools that are failing…Read more...
Ohio has one of the top high-school graduation rates in the nation for white students, but one of the lowest for African Americans. The racial gap — fourth largest among the states — must be closed…Read more...