Education News for 11-26-2012

State Education News

  • Many Ohio 3rd-graders at risk of failing (Chillicothe Gazette)
  • Thousands of Ohio third-graders face being held back in school if they can’t improve their reading proficiency by year’s end — and the problem could be even worse next year…Read more...

  • Schools critics open new front in seclusion-room fight (Columbus Dispatch)
  • Furthering its quest to end Columbus schools' use of seclusion rooms for disabled students, a state disability-rights group has filed a formal complaint against the district with the Ohio Department of Education…Read more...

  • Education conference reflects tough economy (Middletown Journal)
  • Local school administrators were among the nearly 10,000 education professionals who attended the 57th annual Ohio School Board Association Capital Conference and Trade Show last week in Columbus…Read more...

  • District’s financial recovery may take 5 years (Middletown Journal)
  • Members of the state-appointed Financial Planning and Supervision Commission said it will take three to five years before the effects of Monroe Schools’ passed levy will be seen…Read more...

  • State Educators Agree to Replace the OGT (WSYX)
  • State education leaders have agreed on a plan for replacing the Ohio Graduation Test with a nationally standardized college readiness test, such as the ACT, and 10 subject-area exams…Read more...

Local Education News

  • Schools in Singapore may provide lessons for educators here (Cleveland Plain Dealer)
  • Helen Williams knew little about Singapore before traveling there this spring to learn about its education system. What she had heard were the tales of people caned for minor offenses and stereotypes about Asian schools…Read more...

  • Pay freezes, cuts saving millions at local schools (Hamilton Journal-News)
  • Staff pay freezes have become the rule, rather than the exception, at Miami Valley public school districts…Read more...

Editorial

  • Cleveland-area school districts must work harder to keep children who move frequently from falling (Cleveland Plain Dealer)
  • Students who often change schools -- making them hard to track and harder to teach -- have long been a problem in many Ohio school systems…Read more...

  • Fair assessment (Columbus Dispatch)
  • As Ohio lawmakers work through this lame-duck session, one item on the hurry-up agenda demands attention: revamping the report cards…Read more...