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The usually excellent Jennifer Smith Richards must have been dozing a bit yesterday, or possibly her editor was, or both. Here’s a nice little story about Ohio’s changing it’s silly “grading” system for public schools and the consequences. Apart from an equally silly statement that the old system was designed “to punish struggling schools” (maybe it was designed to help students? Save the OEA press releases for later) the story does a nice job of describing one of the basic problems of the No Child Left Behind concept that 100 percent of children will be above average. It even quotes Fordham Institute’s Terry Ryan, always a plus.

Just one thing, though. Who did this scrapping? Was it one of state Rep. Larry Wolpert’s bills to reform education? (Presumably not, since the state legislature must “still approve the new plan.”) Was it an action by Gov. Strickland? The Ohio Department of Education? The federal Department of Education? Did someone issue an executive order? Write a letter? Approve a waiver request? We sort of know why, and some aspect of it happened yesterday, but who, what, and where?

Tags: Education, no child left behind

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