12/28/08
Cleveland Plain Dealer Editorial
The Education Trust, an advocacy organization for poor and minority children, is right to fret about the quality of teachers in the poorest classrooms of Ohio’s largest 14 schools.
Well-regarded studies show that it takes about three years for new teachers to learn their craft. It’s easy for neophytes to flounder, especially in [...]

12/27/08
Plain Dealer
Edith Strzyk
Lori Neiswander, a Cleveland Heights mother of two, has seen both ends of the spectrum when it comes to teaching.
On the good — make that great — end was Lynne Maragliano, who had Neiswander’s daughter Grace for kindergarten.
Grace always came home from that class with a smile on her face, but it was [...]

12/27/08
Cincinnati Enquirer op-ed
Craig Burford
It is difficult to give much credence to the recommendations advanced by Terry Ryan (”Ohio can improve education while cutting costs,” Dec. 13) on how the state should invest its limited resources in public education, given the performance of community schools sponsored by the Fordham Institute, of which he is a vice [...]

12/26/08
Plain Dealer
Edith Starzyk
Karen Landolph has seen her profession go through a lot of changes since she began teaching elementary school in the Bedford district 33 years ago, but she still loves her job.
“It’s a lot more exciting and fun now than in the days of rote learning and memorization,” said the second-grade teacher at Glendale [...]

12/26/08
Plain Dealer
Janet Okoben
Iintervention specialist and English teacher for the Building Trades Academy at Lorain County Joint Vocational School, laughs with student Jose Ramos as she helps him identify suffixes and prefixes during a class.
OBERLIN — Just after lunchtime on a dreary Monday, Lisa Zane is animated as she pulls answers out of her 11th-grade English [...]