The Columbus Dispatch
12/16/07
By Jennifer Smith Richards
Students in struggling Columbus schools will have another option for federally funded tutoring next year: their own teachers, whose union is going after No Child Left Behind money.
The nonprofit arm of the Columbus Education Association will compete with more than 270 other companies to offer tutoring. Students at schools […]

 The New York Times
12/16/2007
By FORD FESSENDEN
As school enrollment for Hispanic children declines in New York City and in other urban areas around the metropolitan region, school districts in dozens of outlying suburbs are adding seats and bilingual programs to address a sharp increase in the number of Hispanic students whose parents are immigrants.
Four out of […]

 The Columbus Dispatch
12/15/2007
By Holly Zachariah
Erica Vieyra’s Spanish students at Olentangy Liberty High School present their projects on immigration — the culmination of three weeks of pretending to go through the steps that Latino immigrants take to come to the United States, legally or illegally.
POWELL — The students had a role-play project: assume a Latino […]

  THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
12/14/2007
By Jennifer Smith Richards
Some of Ohio’s highest-performing schools may have aced state tests last school year, but their students didn’t learn as much as they could have, data released yesterday show.
And some of the state’s urban schools are covering more ground more quickly than the norm, though students’ test scores overall remain […]

 Columbus passes new test of annual progress
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
12/13/2007
By Jennifer Smith Richards
Columbus City Schools are helping students make at least a year’s worth of growth each school year, a new state-testing measure says.
Starting this school year, the Ohio Department of Education is using a “value-added” measurement of school district and school building success […]