Resources
Ohio Governor Ted Strickland talks about the need to transform elementary and secondary education in Ohio. This is the first in a series of Conversations on Education posted on YouTube.com
Staying informed about our schools, education, and education policy is part of our job as citizens. News from within our district and beyond can be found in our Spotlight section on the right side of many pages on our site. We also provide links to local, state, national, and international resources, on this page. With education reform high on Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland’s agenda, we’ve placed the video link below to the governor’s Conversation on Education site.
Local Resources
Neighborhood Newsletters
Reaching Heights works with hundreds of volunteers to write and distribute newsletters describing the daily life in our public schools. The Neighborhood Newsletter project gives community writers, parents and educators from each school a place to describe the rich array of activities that help shape the unique school communities that form within each of the district’s buildings. This is not the news that is found in the media, but it is the news that helps to connect neighbors with their schools, and flesh out the reality of this intensely human enterprise.
Click here to read our most recent Neighborhood Newsletters.
Email News
Once the school year begins, our schools take on a fast moving life. Reaching Heights produces a bi-weekly email newsletter to keep people up to date on Reaching Heights programs, school district news, interesting research, and the vast array of community activities that are open to the community. Anyone who is interested in Reaching Heights and the CH-UH Schools is invited to subscribe. Click here to subscribe. Include your name and email address.
Powerful Learning newsletter
Reaching Heights produces the Powerful Learning newsletter twice a year to update its members and interested citizens about Reaching Heights programs. Click here to add your name to our mailing list. Please include your name, address and phone number. Click here to read the most recent issue.
Press Releases
Click here for the latest news releases about Reaching Heights programs.
School District News
News releases from the CH-UH City School District, an email News Blast, and minutes from meetings of the Board of Education are available at www.chuh.org, the school district’s website.
State Resources
Ohio Department of Education
http://www.ode.state.oh.us
The goal of Ohio’s education system is for all students to graduate from high school with the knowledge and skills necessary to successfully continue their education, be workforce ready and participate in the global economy as productive citizens. Ohio has been recognized for its success in this area, with an education system that ranks 6th in the nation.
State of Ohio Education Blog
http://www.stateofohioeducation.com/
Columbus Dispatch Education Blog
http://blog.dispatch.com/edblog/
National Resources
American Youth Policy Forum
www.aypf.org
AYPF’s mission is to broaden the awareness and understanding of policymakers and to strengthen the youth policymaking process by bridging policy, practice, and research. We do this by identifying the most pertinent high-quality information on youth issues available and providing a forum for prominent leaders in government, programming, and research, as well as the youth themselves, to share their viewpoints and expertise about the policies and practices that improve outcomes for all youth.
Annenberg Institute for Education Reform at Brown University
www.annenberginstitute.org
The Annenberg Institute for School Reform develops, shares, and acts on knowledge that improves the conditions and outcomes of schooling for all students, especially in America’s urban communities.
Carnegie Corporation Schools for a New Society
www.carnegie.org/sns/index.html
In 2000, Carnegie Corporation of New York created Schools for a New Society (SNS) to help reinvent and reimagine the high school experience for American students. SNS advocates district reform, meaning that to improve education for all students, school districts must reinvent how they deliver education, and involve the whole community in reform efforts.
Education Trust
www.edtrust.org
The Education Trust works for the high academic achievement of all students at all levels, pre-kindergarten through college, and forever closing the achievement gaps that separate low-income students and students of color from other youth. Our basic tenet is this — All children will learn at high levels when they are taught to high levels. The Trust’s work focuses on improving the education of all students, and particularly those students whom the system has traditionally left behind.
Education Week
www.educationweek.org
Editorial Projects in Education Inc., a nonprofit, tax-exempt organization based in Bethesda, Md., publishes Education Week, American education’s newspaper of record, the Teacher Professional Development Sourcebook, Digital Directions, edweek.org, teachermagazine.org, and TopSchoolJobs.org. Its mission is to help raise the level of awareness and understanding among professionals and the public of important issues in American education. It covers local, state, and national news and issues from preschool through the 12th grade.
Gates Foundation
www.gatesfoundation.org
The foundation’s education work in the United States is focused on two major initiatives: ensuring that all students graduate from high school ready for college and a new effort to improve postsecondary education so that more students earn a degree or certificate with genuine economic value. The foundation works to help all young people graduate high school with the skills and knowledge they need to succeed in life.
Jobs for the Future
www.jff.org
Jobs for the Future believes that all young people should have a quality high school and postsecondary education, and that all adults should have the skills needed to hold jobs that pay enough to support a family. As a nonprofit research, consulting, and advocacy organization, JFF works to strengthen our society by creating educational and economic opportunity for those who need it most.
National Youth Employment Coalition
www.nyec.org
The National Youth Employment Coalition envisions a nation in which every young person is assured the full range of educational, developmental, vocational, economic and social opportunities, supports, and services s/he may need to become a productive and self-sufficient worker, taxpayer, parent, and citizen. Its mission is to improve the effectiveness of organizations that seek to help youth become productive citizens.
Public Education Network
www.publiceducation.org
The mission of the Public Education Network is to build public demand and mobilize resources for quality public education for all children through a national constituency of local education funds and individuals.
Strong American Schools
www.strongamericanschools.org
Strong American Schools is a nonpartisan public awareness and advocacy effort aimed at elevating discussion amongst America’s leaders about the need for education reform. This campaign seeks to unite all Americans around the crucial mission of improving our public schools by elevating the discussion to a national stage.
International Resources
Program for International Student Assessment
http://www.pisa.oecd.org/
The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) conducts surveys of 15-year-old students in the principal industrialised countries as part of PISA, the Program for International Student Assessment. Every three years, PISA assesses how far students near the end of compulsory education have acquired some of the knowledge and skills essential for full participation in society.