November 2008
Good teachers are key to student achievement, but bad ones are hard to fire »
11/30/08 Plain Dealer Edith Starzyk & Scott Stephens A Cleveland teacher would be the first to tell you that not much learning went on in his high school classroom last spring. Students typically chatted with each other or joined an ongoing card game in the back of the room while he tried to get them [...]
Having The Courage To Be Different »
11/30/08 CBS News (CBS) Time for a break from all the bad economic news. Instead … The Good News, stories to be thankful for, featuring an American who made his community better against the odds. Correspondent Armen Keteyian takes us to Ohio: Ted Ginn Sr. just might be the most unlikely head of a high school [...]
Teachers getting secret scores: Some districts buy extra test results to guide their training »
11/30/08 Columbus Dispatch Jennifer Smith Richards Despite an unwritten rule that schools can’t get standardized-test data from the state that can show teacher effectiveness, some schools are paying an outside group to get it anyway. Battelle for Kids gives teachers in 36 Ohio districts access to reports that show how much progress their students made [...]
OEA staff wages: Teachers union’s pay a surprise to many »
11/29/09 Columbus Dispatch Bill Bush The average salary for Ohio teachers dropped last year for the first time in at least seven years, but that’s not the case for most employees of the state’s largest teachers union. Counting everyone from receptionists up to the executive director, the median salary for the 234-person staff of the [...]
KIPP schools could be miracle inner-city kids need »
11/29/08 Columbus Dispatch Letter I respond to the recent press in The Dispatch about the new KIPP school in Columbus (article, Nov. 19; editorial, Monday). I am not employed by the Knowledge is Power Program, involved with it in any way and do not have a child in a KIPP school. I am an outsider [...]
