The Dispatch wrote Strickland’s vision for public-school reform getting high marks
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
BY CATHY CANDISKY
Gov. Ted Strickland’s vision of an education system tailored to meet individual student needs with greater opportunity for innovation was well-received by the educators, parents and others who gathered in Columbus today for the governor’s first forum on education. “There is a tendency in our schools to emphasize sameness,” Strickland said in the 90-minute televised event.
While gathering ideas and taking questions from the crowd of about 200 and e-mails from viewers, Strickland talked about a more interdisciplinary approach, hands-on learning and small-group work.
The forum was the first of a dozen televised �Conversations on Education� that Strickland said will help him prepare a promised education-reform plan. The governor will hold a second round of meetings later this year to discuss how to pay for the proposal.
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