North Olmsted School Superintendent Cheryl Dubsky is another good candidate for a Meet the Bloggers interview.

“We need to talk together about 21st century learning and how to collectively help young people achieve the skills and attributes that will allow them to survive and thrive in the new global economy,” she said. “Teaching and modeling the skills of leadership, work ethic, collaboration, communication and problem solving are within the power of every individual and institution within a community and within this room.”

Dubsky: Globalization changing education

Yesterday, the Department of Education released the 2007 National Report card on reading and math for 4th and 8th graders.

US students score sweeping gains on tests

You can access Ohio’s results from the project web site. Ohio’s scores did not change significantly in reading or math at either grade level. Ohio’s students, however, scored higher than the national average.

Ohio students top national average on tests

KSU President Lefton’s State of the University Address

As Bill Sloat points out, it doesn’t take much to get to the root of a problem:

Tuition costs at Ohio’s state-supported universities have become so burdensome that Gov. Ted Strickland and lawmakers imposed a freeze this year. Now the student newspaper at Ohio University has discovered a startling number that may deserve even more attention from Columbus: The Athens campus has more administrators than faculty.

The Post said in an editorial called Complete Garbage that the school “is overpaying a multitude of bureaucrats” while laying off janitors.

The Daily Bellwether: Ohio U Now Has More Administrators Than Professors: Time To Quiz Brass?

Click thru and read the preface to this excerpt for more CMSD perspective:

I have now been officially hired as the director of the All City Arts Program Atelier, a consultant position that will keep me busy after school, and occasionally, on weekends. The Atelier is being designed as an extra-curricular (after-school/weekend) activity for talented high school students throughout the district. The idea is to partner with community arts organizations across the city to provide visual arts experiences for students that they cannot get in a regular classroom.

This month we will be having two planning meetings; the first with all the CMSD high school teachers and the second with the arts community. These will be brainstorming sessions where we will introduce the program, discuss possibilities, identify potential partners, and envision how the arts can help create a new future for Cleveland. Anyone who is interested in participating in this discussion please email me, and I will send you more information.

The Atelier was kicked-off this summer with a pilot program, entitled Atelier Summer Intensive. Sponsored by the Human Fund , and launched in collaboration with two community arts organizations - Passport Project on Cleveland’s east side and Art House on the west side of the city - students traveled to Pittsburgh in July to visit the Mattress factory and the Warhol Museum. In the three weeks following the trip, they worked with artists on photography and printmaking projects, inspired by the work of Andy Warhol…

MB Matthews: Street Smarts: Another Year: Old Problems, New Programs