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Fordham’s Needles in a Haystack report highlights high-performing Ohio schools serving disadvantaged students »
Click the following link to watch, Needles in a Haystack: Lessons from Ohio’s high-performing, high-need urban schools, which includes interviews with principals and teachers: http://www.vimeo.com/11932558
Middle School & High School Students, Get a Jumpstart on College and Your Career: High School Classes Can Count for College, Without Costing You a Dime »
This brochure explains four opportunities for middle and high schoolers to earn tuition-free college credit now: Advanced Placement, College Tech Prep, Early College, and Post Secondary Enrollment Options.
To read the brochure, click here.
An Independent Guide to Ohio’s $400 Million Race to the Top Application »
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 [...]
New KidsOhio policy brief: Can requiring all high school juniors to take the ACT improve college preparation and the number of Ohioans going to college? »
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 [...]
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s poll of 40,000 teachers »
Click here to read the poll: Primary Sources: America\’s Teachers on America\’s Schools
