12/26/08 Plain Dealer Thomas Ott Faika Munirah leads her students in practicing a performance piece during school at Harvey Rice Elementary School in Cleveland. Students wipe their muddy feet on a mat just inside teacher Faika Munirah’s classroom at Harvey Rice Elementary School. That’s where Munirah wants the second-graders to also cleanse their hearts and [...]

12/26/08 Plain Dealer Edith Starzyk Brian Chulik uses student Kenny Robinette, 14, to demonstrate the effect of energy, gravity, and centrifugal force while teaching a lesson about “Toys in Space” during an eighth grade science class at Rocky River Middle School. Cool. Awesome. Nice. Fun. Those are the kinds of words students at Rocky River [...]

12/25/08 Suburban News Khalila Perrin From levy millage wrangling to forging an academic comeback and letting the dust settle on districtwide construction projects, the Columbus City School District found itself on the cusp of great — if slow and methodical — change in 2008. Here are just a few of the matters that made headlines [...]

12/23/08 Plain Dealer Thomas Ott Ohio school districts receive nearly a billion dollars a year in federal and state aid to educate low-income students, but the money often doesn’t make its way to the largest pockets of need, a new study says. The aid appears to subsidize districts’ overall operations rather than improve instruction in [...]

12/23/08 Plain Dealer Thomas Ott Ohio school districts receive nearly a billion dollars a year in federal and state aid to educate low-income students, but the money often doesn’t make its way to the largest pockets of need, a new study says. The aid appears to subsidize districts’ overall operations rather than improve instruction in [...]