Urban Schools Resources at
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For more information on the OSU/USI project in Central Ohio, call 614-688-4441, or write to Oliver Jones at: OSU/USI e-mail jones.1571@osu.edu
Last updated March 11, 2005.
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The OSU College of Education has launched a 5-year project to
study and improve education in four urban school districts in Central Ohio:
Columbus, Mansfield, South-Western, and Springfield. With a major grant from the
Martha Holden Jennings Foundation, OSU/USI and the four school districts have become
partners to promote much-needed research and to develop training programs to support the
work of teachers and educators. OSU/USI builds upon the earlier work of the Ohio Department of Education's Urban Congress and the Urban Schools Initiative, which represent twenty-one urban school districts in Ohio. With larger student populations, a higher concentration of minority and special needs students, and a history of past economic and social barriers to overcome, these urban school districts face enormous challenges in the next decade to improve student performance.
The OSU/USI is funded by a grant from the Martha Holden Jennings Foundation. |
Initiative implements ideas for better urban schools(from Discovery, a publication for students and faculty of the OSU College of Education, Summer 2000)
KEEP Books is one aspect of
the Urban Schools Initiative. More than 600 students in four districts have taken
home thousands of the free storybooks, including Mansfield City Schools kindergartners
Cameron Moree, left, Michelle Wallis, and Henry Brock. The College's Literacy
Collaborative staff members wrote 48 small volumes, which children and parents can enjoy
together.. Four urban school districts in Central Ohio have joined with the College of Education to promote research and to develop training programs to support the work of teachers and educators. The Urban Schools Initiative is using a five-year $1.7 million Martha Holden Jennings Foundation grant. Oliver Jones, the project director, said the foundation is interested in gaining a better understanding of the conditions confronting teachers and principals in urban schools and how to improve the education of children in those settings. Five to six smaller grants are used each year for research on common issues in the Mansfield, South Western, Springfield and Columbus city schools. In Columbus, special attention is being given to the six elementary and two middle schools in the University District east of High Street. |
