- Our own Aaron Churchill was on the radio this morning, discussing last week’s Achieve report on the gap between state proficiency scores and NAEP scores. Quick but interesting discussion. (WTVN-AM, Columbus, 5/18/15)
- The Beacon Journal started out taking a look at single-gender classrooms and schools in the Akron area. Along the way, issues such as pay gaps, involuntary teacher transfers, societal norms, class differences, and discipline statistics piled up in an overegged but still interesting piece. (Akron Beacon Journal, 5/16/15)
- We told you last week about a Franklin County neighborhood petitioning the state board of ed to be rezoned away from South-Western City Schools and into Upper Arlington Schools. Why are those Columbus households in South-Western to begin with? The infamous Win-Win agreement from the 1980s, by which the city of Columbus was allowed to continue to annex the hinterlands and grow but neighborhoods already in other districts prior to 1986 were not required to send their children to Columbus City Schools. In exchange, Columbus has gotten money from those districts every year. But a new effort by Dublin City Schools to end the decades-old agreement is gaining steam…and generating some heat. (Columbus Dispatch, 5/17/15)
- Editors in Zanesville opine, ostensibly, in favor of Common Core in Ohio. There’s a lot of stuff bound up in here (testing, standards, accountability processes), but it’s worth taking a look to see where things stand in the eyes of the general public on what has been a set of very hot issues now seemingly melted into one gigantic alloy. (Zanesville News-Courier, 5/16/15)
