- The editors at Vindy.com seem preoccupied with Ohio’s lowly ranking in a recent WalletHub report on return on taxpayer investment in education. So much so that they are siding with the dinosaurs that gave us the DeRolph school funding case approximately 66 million years ago. They opine that if Ohio doesn’t enact the current funding overhaul bill, the WalletHub rating should encourage folks to move to a “better state”. So it’s literally their way or the highway? (Vindy.com, 4/12/12)
- As if that wasn’t enough incentive to get you thinking of leaving the Buckeye State behind, how about this: Today Wooster, tomorrow the world! Not content with Zoom, the College of Wooster has actually placed nine mobile “virtual presence devices” (y’all saw that episode of Big Bang Theory, right?) in Wooster City Schools so that their student teachers can actually “circulate around the room” and talk with various kids during the day. Just like normal. We don’t know how much those things cost but I’m sure the return on investment would be worth a look. (News5, Cleveland, 4/9/21)
- Utica Shale Academy is deep into VR already, and looking to buy another “virtual welder” for its students to train on. That’s just one of the many expansion ideas on the books for the burgeoning charter school in southeastern Ohio. (Salem News, 4/9/21)
- If you do decide to stick around Ohio after all, here are three possibilities of what your school’s annual report card might look like in the near future. While the first two are fairly standard—and well-discussed around here already—the third one noted at the end of this piece seems like the best option to include “number of robots” and “return on investment” as school quality measures. Or perhaps we could just let WalletHub rate our schools from here on out. (Dayton Daily News, 4/10/21)
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