The Columbus Dispatch – Charlie Boss
“For declining neighborhoods to thrive and struggling schools to improve, educators and community leaders need to set their sights on early education, programs offered outside the school day and parent engagement, a new report indicates.”(more)
Time – Time Staff
“So briefly, I’ll ask for two things from the Class of 2013: to participate, and to persevere. After all, your democracy does not function without your active participation. At a bare minimum, that means voting, eagerly and often…”(more)
Akron.com – Maria Lindsay
“Leaders in business and education are working together to create a 21st-century generation of employees for the region with help from the Ohio STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) Learning Network (OSLN).”(more)
The Portsmouth Daily Times Ryan Scott Ottney
“Scouts from all 18 counties were invited to attend the free STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) University at Portsmouth High School on Saturday.”(more)
Education News Julia Lawrence
“Officials in some Ohio school districts have come to believe that the strings attached to federal Race to the Top grants make the money not worth receiving, The Columbus Dispatch reports. As a result as many as 80 districts and some charter schools have withdrawn from the program, in part because the money wasn’t sufficient…”(more)
Education Week – Andrew Ujifusa
“As states consider increases to K-12 spending amid better economic conditions, governors on opposite sides of the partisan divide are proposing significantly different plans and arguments for the best ways to use new education aid.”(more)
Yahoo!- Jenny Inglee of Takepart.com
“Despite not receiving a strong education at her local public school, she had the grit and determination that would eventually get her out. Hicks studied to become a teacher, and when she got her degree, she set out to help girls who grew up as she did.”(more)
Education Week – Alyson Klein
“The first order of business for Mary Ronan as the acting superintendent of the Cincinnati school system four years ago was making big changes at more than a dozen of the city’s lowest-performing elementary schools.”(more)
The Morning Journal – Brian Reinhardt
“We have to do a better job as parents. We cannot expect the schools to do an excellent job of teaching if we are bad at parenting, and frankly, some of us are. We need to get to know our teachers and our principals.”(more)
The Dayton Daily News – Marie Kriedman
“According to its website, “The mission of the Dayton International School is to prepare students with the academic, social and foreign language skills needed to be successful in our multicultural, multilingual world.””(more)
