December 2006
Charter enrolls kids in January, accelerates lessons in fall »
The Columbus Dispatch
12/5/2006
Jennifer Smith Richards
Reading the words was effortless for them: bug, his, go, going, nose. The kindergartners fired them off in rapid succession.
“See all the big words you’re learning now?” said Deborah Eiland, their language-arts teacher.
In January, when they began a midyear kindergarten program at W.C. Cupe Community School, they were working on letters […]
Strickland’s school-funding vow could backfire down the road »
Columbus Dispatch
12/3/2006
Joe Hallett
To avoid hard-to-keep promises, Gov.-elect Ted Strickland should remember a little ditty from 19th century American poet Emily Dickinson: A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day. Strickland’s words Nov. 2 in the Prout Chapel at Bowling Green State University now live […]
Teaching the Elephant »
NYTimes Op-Ed Column
12/3/2006
David Brooks
Human beings have divided selves. Some philosophers emphasize that people have a cool, rational side and an unruly, passionate side. Some theologians emphasize that people have a loving, virtuous side and a selfish, sinful side. Freudians used to emphasize the divisions between the ego, the superego and the id. But lately some […]
Ohio Grantmakers Forum: Education for Ohio’s Future »
This report presents priorities for education policy in Ohio.
