Ohio has been named one of 19 finalists in the second round of the national Race to the Top competition.  A five-person Ohio team will present the state’s case to federal reviewers on August 10th in Washington, D.C.  The state will learn by September 1st if it will be awarded a grant of up to [...]

Ohio Grantmakers Forum and KidsOhio.org are nonprofit, nonpartisan organizations working together to improve academic achievement among Ohio’s 1.8 M public school students.  Our commitment to helping students improve is the reason we produced the Independent Guide to Ohio’s $400 M Race to the Top Application.  This guide describes a unique opportunity for Ohio schools to [...]

KidsOhio’s latest policy brief, Can requiring all high school juniors to take the ACT improve college preparation and the number of Ohioans going to college?, is meant to spur discussion about Ohio’s efforts to increase the number of college graduates from 72,657 to 100,000 by 2017.
A new state law will require Ohio highschoolers to take [...]

Harvard Education Letter
Volume 25, Number 5
September/October 2009
Urgent Lessons from Unexpected Schools
An Interview with Karin Chenoweth
By CHRIS RAND

In her 2007 book, “It’s Being Done”: Academic Success in Unexpected Schools, former Washington Post columnist and Education Trust senior writer Karin Chenoweth used a strict set of criteria to identify fifteen schools with challenging student demographics that were [...]

This eight-page KidsOhio.org report, ”Key Facts About South-Western City Schools,” provides information about the district from state and county sources. To download the report, click the link below.
Several community leaders have asked KidsOhio.org to provide key facts about the South-Western City Schools.  The district is proposing a 7.4-mill operating levy on the November 3rd ballot.  Voters have rejected [...]