The idea of project-based learning — the ''hands-on'' teaching approach Akron's new National Inventors Hall of Fame middle school has embraced — has its roots in the earliest years of the last century.

GRANGER TWP.: Highland Schools Superintendent Catherine Aukerman has announced that $1.2 million in cuts will be needed as a result of a levy failure Nov. 3.

Next year's financial picture is looking a little brighter for Revere schools. Superintendent Randy Boroff said property values have grown 1 percent in the district, according to a Summit County valuation.

The Akron-Summit County Public Library likely will seek a levy to raise an additional $700,000 a year. Property owners would see a slight increase in their tax bills, library officials point out.

NORTH CANTON: Nearly 10 percent of Hoover High School's 1,715 students stayed home Tuesday after a message was discovered in a school dictionary two weeks ago threatening that ''something bad will happen on Dec. 15.''

STREETSBORO: The Streetsboro Board of Education approved the midyear layoff of 10 teachers, a computer technician and the director of pupil services Thursday in an unusual move that the teachers' union president says violates their contract.

HUDSON: A Hudson High School senior was suspended Tuesday after a police dog sniffed marijuana in his car during a drug sweep.

Women's clothing designer Dana Buchman will visit Kent State this week to critique students' work. She will evaluate outfits made by 17 senior fashion design students from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Thursday in the atrium of Rockwell Hall on the Kent campus.