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The state is the latest to tap Zearn Math as a teaching and tutoring tool to overcome double-digit math score drops. But how much teachers will use the tool is unclear.

As Ohio Governor Mike DeWine moves to require schools to use only the "Science of Reading," a new analysis has found the state’s teacher training programs are uneven in preparing prospective educators to use the phonics-based approach.

Ohio's teachers unions are pushing back against Gov. Mike DeWine's attempt to make phonics-based "Science of Reading" methods the only way to teach reading in Ohio's schools — but DeWine and state education officials are holding their ground.

The governor's proposal would pay for training and new books while banning the whole language approach to teaching literacy.

Education world has waited nervously for the first NAEP release since the pandemic. Scores show evidence of severe learning loss, especially in math.

White, affluent and suburban students escaped serious learning damage from the pandemic, but low-income, Black, Hispanic and special education students fell even further behind, new Ohio test scores show.

A similar Florida law mandates 12 hours of diversity training before firearm approval. But Ohio lawmakers say they didn’t consider bias "whatsoever."

“He just commands the best out of you when you’re tired and you feel like you can't do any more,” said Oberlin High School senior Caleb Peterson, who has had “Russ” as a teacher every year since ninth grade and is taking three of his courses this year. “The lessons he’s taught me on the court or in the classroom will stick in my heart.”

Economist Emily Oster and her co-authors found that learning loss was far worse in districts that kept classes fully remote, and that declines in reading scores were greater in districts serving predominantly poor and non-white students.

This is in spite of the fact that, in 2017, Ohio mandated more comprehensive screening for gifted status in the early grades. Historically, even some students who received that status have gone without gifted services.