StateImpact Ohio

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Education Reporting Throughout Ohio

Education Reporting Throughout Ohio


195 Pieces

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Report cards for Ohio’s schools were released last Thursday and no one got straight A's. That's no surprise, for months now the Ohio Department of ...

  • Added: Mar 14, 2014
  • Length: 01:01:20
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While most of us groan at the prediction of another 5 inches of snow, there’s one group of people who rejoice at that news: kids. According to the ...

  • Added: Mar 14, 2014
  • Length: 50:02
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As societies undergo demographic and economic changes, schools must play a role in providing the training and support needed for the economy and th...

  • Added: Mar 14, 2014
  • Length: 01:03:00
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Many school districts will likely have to lengthen their calendars this year, but state lawmakers have voted to give them a bit of a break. For Sta...

  • Added: Mar 13, 2014
  • Length: 03:17
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An Ohio House special committee has come up with a series of recommendations to change Ohio’s approach to higher education. That includes financial...

  • Added: Mar 13, 2014
  • Length: 03:29
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The decision by the University of Akron to eliminate as many as 55 programs has been nearly 10 years in the making... but it's still taken a lot of...

  • Added: Mar 13, 2014
  • Length: 03:11
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Education is likely to be a key issue in this year’s campaign for governor. And as Statehouse correspondent Karen Kasler reports for StateImpact Oh...

  • Added: Mar 13, 2014
  • Length: 03:40
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An investigation into Columbus City Schools, the state’s largest school district, uncovers years of alleged rule-breaking in order to improve its s...

  • Added: Mar 13, 2014
  • Length: 02:34
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The head of Ohio's largest teachers union, the Ohio Education Association, is retiring at the end of this year, after more than 40 years working wi...

  • Added: Mar 13, 2014
  • Length: 03:23
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A researcher is taking on a big and controversial issue – school spending. As Statehouse correspondent Andy Chow reports for StateImpact Ohio, the ...

  • Added: Mar 13, 2014
  • Length: 02:10
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The Ohio Department of Education released overhauled state report cards this (Thursday, 8/22) morning. The new system measures performance with fam...

  • Added: Mar 13, 2014
  • Length: 03:52
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The head of the group that oversees Ohio's colleges recently granted in state tuition status to Ohio students who have received a special federal d...

  • Added: Mar 13, 2014
  • Length: 02:21
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A new Case Western Reserve University study reports that preschool can pay big dividends in preparing young people to learn, especially those who s...

  • Added: Mar 13, 2014
  • Length: 50:18
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We all know college is expensive. The total cost for a four year degree by 2030 is estimated to be more than $200,000. It's the second biggest inve...

  • Added: Mar 13, 2014
  • Length: 50:33
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Schools are equipped to come to the aid of students with known food allergies, injecting life-saving ephinephrin through a simple-to-use pen. But w...

  • Added: Mar 13, 2014
  • Length: 33:21
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Atlantic writer Karl Taro Greenfeld noticed his daughter was staying up into the wee hours of the night doing homework, so for a week he too did he...

  • Added: Mar 13, 2014
  • Length: 33:37
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Under Ohio's new funding formula for higher education institutions, colleges and universities get state funding based on graduation rates. The poin...

  • Added: Mar 13, 2014
  • Length: 50:20
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Kent State and the University of Akron will both say goodbye to their long time presidents next summer while Youngstown State University and Tri-C ...

  • Added: Mar 13, 2014
  • Length: 50:17
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Freshman are heading off to college this time of year armed with a dozen years of schooling and probably a smart phone more powerful than the mainf...

  • Added: Mar 13, 2014
  • Length: 50:50
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When the Cleveland school district announced the opening of its first health center at an elementary school last fall, they said more would follow....

  • Added: Mar 12, 2014
  • Length: 04:17