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	<title>StateImpact Ohio &#187; Performance</title>
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		<title>How is Value-Added Calculated?</title>
		<link>http://stateimpact.npr.org/ohio/2013/06/19/how-is-value-added-calculated/</link>
		<comments>http://stateimpact.npr.org/ohio/2013/06/19/how-is-value-added-calculated/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 21:50:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Teacher Evaluation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[How is value-added calculated? Let us explain.]]></description>
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		<title>Grading the Teachers: Performance Isn&#8217;t Reflected in Teachers&#8217; Paychecks</title>
		<link>http://stateimpact.npr.org/ohio/2013/06/18/grading-the-teachers-performance-isnt-reflected-in-teachers-paychecks/</link>
		<comments>http://stateimpact.npr.org/ohio/2013/06/18/grading-the-teachers-performance-isnt-reflected-in-teachers-paychecks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 10:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ida Lieszkovszky</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Performance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Performance Pay]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Students in Emily Brown&#8217;s Toledo classroom conduct an experiment on the movement of waves. While she drops a block of clay into an aluminum tray filled with water and watches the waves spread out, 7th grader Angel Hines explains why she likes Mrs. Brown. &#8220;She actually lets us grade her so she knows if she’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grading the Teachers: Measuring Teacher Performance Through Student Growth</title>
		<link>http://stateimpact.npr.org/ohio/2013/06/17/grading-the-teachers-measuring-teacher-performance-through-student-growth/</link>
		<comments>http://stateimpact.npr.org/ohio/2013/06/17/grading-the-teachers-measuring-teacher-performance-through-student-growth/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 10:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ida Lieszkovszky</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Performance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Value-Added]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Schools get rated based on how well students perform on standardized state tests. Not so for teachers. Their main evaluation comes from often brief classroom observations by a principal. Practically no one fails. The new value-added measurement Ohio is phasing in aims to gauge how much a student learns from one year to the next, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bill Lets Columbus Schools Share Levy Dollars with Charters</title>
		<link>http://stateimpact.npr.org/ohio/2013/05/24/bill-lets-columbus-schools-share-levy-dollars-with-charters/</link>
		<comments>http://stateimpact.npr.org/ohio/2013/05/24/bill-lets-columbus-schools-share-levy-dollars-with-charters/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 20:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ida Lieszkovszky</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Performance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Columbus Education Assocation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Columbus Education Commission]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Columbus School District]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It’s been a rough school year for Columbus City Schools. The district is under investigation by the State Auditor’s office and the FBI for tampering with student attendance data and grades. Plus the  district has a history of less-than-stellar academic results. Now there’s a bill making its way through the Ohio House that aims to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cleveland School District Moves Towards Performance Pay</title>
		<link>http://stateimpact.npr.org/ohio/2013/05/15/cleveland-school-district-moves-towards-performance-pay/</link>
		<comments>http://stateimpact.npr.org/ohio/2013/05/15/cleveland-school-district-moves-towards-performance-pay/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 22:16:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ida Lieszkovszky</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Performance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cleveland Plan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cleveland School District]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cleveland Teachers Union]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Quolke]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eric Gordon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Performance Pay]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Teacher Compensation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Last night the Cleveland school board unanimously agreed to what city and union officials are hailing as a groundbreaking teacher contract for Ohio. Union members will vote later this month. The contract spells out a new basis for teacher pay hikes. Raises merely for lasting another year in the job are out; so are automatic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Common Core Testing Problems Crop Up In Other States</title>
		<link>http://stateimpact.npr.org/ohio/2013/05/03/common-core-testing-problems-crop-up-in-other-states/</link>
		<comments>http://stateimpact.npr.org/ohio/2013/05/03/common-core-testing-problems-crop-up-in-other-states/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 20:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ida Lieszkovszky</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Performance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Common Core]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PARCC]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Several states have already started field testing the new Common Core computer-based assessments. And some of those tests didn&#8217;t go quite as smoothly as people had hoped. According to Education Week, there were problems with testing in Indiana, Minnesota, Kentucky and Oklahoma. Thousands of students experienced slow loading times of test questions, students were closed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Report Finds Steep Decline in Enrollment and Spending in Ohio Preschool</title>
		<link>http://stateimpact.npr.org/ohio/2013/04/30/report-finds-steep-decline-in-enrollment-and-spending-in-ohio-preschool/</link>
		<comments>http://stateimpact.npr.org/ohio/2013/04/30/report-finds-steep-decline-in-enrollment-and-spending-in-ohio-preschool/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 10:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ida Lieszkovszky</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Performance]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A decade ago, more than twice as many Ohio children were enrolled in the state&#8217;s preschool program than now. According to a recent report by the National Institute for Early Education Research, in 2011-2012 total state enrollment for preschool was 9,379. The state only paid for 5,700 of those students; the rest were paid for by parents, local [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cincinnati Student in Critical Condition After Shooting Himself in Class</title>
		<link>http://stateimpact.npr.org/ohio/2013/04/29/cincinnati-student-in-critical-condition-after-shooting-himself-in-class/</link>
		<comments>http://stateimpact.npr.org/ohio/2013/04/29/cincinnati-student-in-critical-condition-after-shooting-himself-in-class/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 20:31:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ida Lieszkovszky</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Influences]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Performance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[School Shootings]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A student at La Salle High School in Cincinnati is in critical condition after he pulled out a gun during class this morning and shot himself in the head. The student was taken to the University of Cincinnati Medical Center, and school officials say all other students at the Catholic all-boys school are safe. School spokesman [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Three Tips for Surviving the OAAs</title>
		<link>http://stateimpact.npr.org/ohio/2013/04/23/three-tips-for-surviving-the-oaas/</link>
		<comments>http://stateimpact.npr.org/ohio/2013/04/23/three-tips-for-surviving-the-oaas/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 19:10:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Molly Bloom</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Performance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Testing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Stan Carroll / The Commercial Appeal/Landov Students across Ohio take the Ohio Achievement Assessments in reading, math and science this week. They&#8217;re kind of a big deal. These state tests: Help decide if third graders can read well enough to advance to fourth grade; Largely determine schools&#8217; state report card grades; and Are a factor in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Opposition to National Common Core Standards Grows in Ohio</title>
		<link>http://stateimpact.npr.org/ohio/2013/04/11/opposition-to-national-common-core-standards-grows-in-ohio/</link>
		<comments>http://stateimpact.npr.org/ohio/2013/04/11/opposition-to-national-common-core-standards-grows-in-ohio/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2013 12:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Molly Bloom</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Performance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Common Core]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Michelle Maitino volunteers at her daughters’ school. She checks their homework, volunteers in in the library, and keeps in touch with their teachers. But until recently, she didn’t know that a new, national set of standards called the Common Core was coming to her daughters’ Catholic school. “It’s a whole new curriculum but no one [...]]]></description>
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