6/27/08
Plain Dealer
Brian Anthony Hernandez
Danielle Danko squinted under the late-afternoon sun as she searched for clues in a shooting on the campus of Baldwin-Wallace College.
Her team fanned out in a quadrant outside Wheeler Hall looking for weapons, bullets, witnesses or anything to explain the violence that had awakened the sleepy Berea campus.
“Something black caught the corner […]

6/27/08
Plain Dealer Editorial
Regarding the June 19 editorial “High-stakes tests are useful”: I am a 2008 graduate of an Ohio public school and one of the Ohio Youth Voices authors of the briefing paper to Gov. Ted Strickland. And I strongly disagree with the editorial’s claim that the Ohio Graduation Test is “worth the sweat.”
While the […]

6/26/08
From the Plain Dealer Via AP
CLEVELAND — Few teachers in Ohio are like Malik Daniels, a black man who teaches first-graders in Cleveland Heights, a suburb of Cleveland.
In fact, just 2 percent of the nation’s elementary school teachers are black men; the percentage is smaller if only the black men who teach the earliest grades […]

6/25/08
Columbus Dispatch Blog
Jennifer Smith Richards
Seniors in 2004 were more likely to be enrolled in calculus, higher-level science (chemistry II, physics II, advanced bio) and planned more college than did seniors from decades before.
The National Center for Education Statistics, the data-gathering arm of the U.S. Department of Education, tracked senior classes in 1972, 1980, 1982, 1992 […]

6/24/08
New York Times
Erik Eckholm
FLINT, Mich. - Because he has moved so often, 9-year-old Richard Kennedy has already attended four different schools in Flint. In his mother’s latest rental house the other day, he described how it felt to enter an unfamiliar classroom.
“My mind gets mixed up,” he said softly. “They’re always starting with different stuff […]