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Knowledge is the basic currency of education, and in the information-saturated environment of the modern world the open sharing of knowledge is key to collaborative education progress. Ohio Education Matters aims to connect ideas and innovation with people who can create education change.
We invite users to share reports, research, websites, videos, podcasts and any other kinds of information that will contribute to the conversation. Our resources include:
Ohio education news We provide daily updates of education headlines from Ohio and national media, a new round-up that make it easy to stay on top of events and trends.
Reports and websites We've compiled and will keep up to date a library of useful resources arranged by topic area. These include Policy Reports issued by Ohio Education Matters.
Ohio Smart Schools
Ohio needs to be smart about how it invests in education. The state must find ways to give its 1.8 million students a world-class education that will allow them and the state to thrive in an increasingly competitive global economy – while at the same time making the best use of limited resources in the context of an ongoing economic downturn. Ohio Smart Schools, a collaborative, nonpartisan initiative of Ohio Education Matters, has been seeking ideas and approaches that will allow the state to achieve innovative education reform against a budgetary picture that likely will get worse before it gets better. An extensive series of findings from our in-depth research will be released throughout the first few months of 2011.
Ohio's Road to High-Quality Digital Learning: An analysis of Ohio's performance on the Nation's Report Card on Digital Learning
On the heels of the inaugural meeting of Ohio's Digital Learning Task Force, which is charged with expanding innovative education policy in state, KnowledgeWorks subsidiary Ohio Education Matters Ohio has released an analysis of Ohio’s performance on the first ever national report on digital learning. The policy report, titled “Ohio’s Road to High Quality Digital Learning,” was released the day after the National Report Card on Digital Learning was announced by Digital Learning Now at the National Summit on Education reform in San Francisco. The National Report Card gave the state high marks for its work while challenging it to improve in other areas.
The report card grades each state based on its alignment with the 10 Elements of High Quality Digital Learning developed last fall, including access, personalized learning and quality choices.
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Moving from Vision to Reality: Ohio's Second Round of the Race to the Top
Ohio ended the first round of the RttT process in an enviable position: Having landed in the Top Ten among the 41 initial applicants and with no major rethinking called for, Ohio officials can concentrate on strengthening its proposed reforms, filling in the details and building more support for their plan. If the state is careful about revising its application to ensure those pieces are in place, Ohio’s chances appear strong to be one of the 10 to 15 winners expected to receive funding in the next round of Race to the Top. May 2010
The Pursuit of High-Quality High Schools: A progress report on Ohio’s quest to graduate more students ready for college and career
In the five years since a state task force issued recommendations aimed at improving Ohio high schools, the state's average dropout raise has increased and a core of urban high schools with disproportionately high dropout rates continues to struggle. This policy report from Ohio Education Matters examines Ohio's dropout problem and calls for a comprehensive long-term strategy for high school improvement. August 2009
Public opinion research Those who hope to spark progress in education need to know what the public thinks about and wants from its education system. Our collection of polls provides a way to keep abreast of public opinion and gauge changes in attitudes and priorities.