Aaron Knox / Flickr It’s now easier for teachers coming from out-of-state to come work in Ohio – as long as they’ve been teaching for the last five years consecutively and are not coming from Alaska, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota or Wyoming. At its meeting this month, the State Board of Education voted on a policy [...]
Like many education majors, Melissa Beaune knew it would be tough to find a job after graduation, especially since she wanted to work with young children. Beaune, a sophomore at Cleveland State University, thought—briefly—about going into a medical field where jobs might be more plentiful. But science and math were never really her things. She [...]
chrisinplymouth / Flickr New state performance reports on the Ohio schools that produce new teachers are a step in the right direction, the National Council on Teacher Quality says. But Ohio still needs to do more to improve the quality of its new teachers. Overall, the National Council on Teacher Quality gives Ohio a C- [...]
Gates Foundation / Flickr Ohio colleges and universities produce about 6,000 teachers a year. Now, for the first time, there’s a way to tell which colleges of education are doing a good job and which have, well, room for improvement. The Ohio state agency that oversees higher education — the Board of Regents – has released [...]
How are the schools that teach our teachers doing? This month, the Ohio Board of Regents released its first-ever performance reports on bachelor’s degree teacher preparation programs at the state’s public and private colleges and universities.
Today, WCPN’s morning talk show “The Sound of Ideas” takes on the issue of teacher preparation: With a new school year underway, we are devoting a program to the grooming of future teachers. U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan has said that most of the country’s 1,450 teacher-training programs are doing a “mediocre job.” So, what [...]
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