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Operated by Columbus-based firm, collaboration involves more than 1,600 students from 50 districts
By John Higgins
Beacon Journal staff writer
Published on Thursday, Dec 31, 2009
The National Inventors Hall of Fame School belongs to an emerging network of Ohio schools that focus on STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) disciplines.
The Ohio STEM Learning Network — a collaboration of school districts, universities and businesses — includes STEM schools in Akron, Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati, Dayton and New Miami (Butler County) that enroll more than 1,600 students from more than 50 districts.
Columbus-based Battelle, a multinational independent research and development firm, operates the network. Battelle and Ohio State University created Metro Early College High School, the first school in the network, which opened in 2006 and is operated by a confederation of Franklin County's 16 school districts. Battelle made an initial $2.8 million investment, along with a $12 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, to start the network, which gives grants to STEM schools and shares knowledge from each school's experience to help start other STEM schools.
The Ohio STEM network is different from typical math and science academies because it aims to serve children of all abilities, especially low-income and minority children, not just those who already have demonstrated aptitude.
''STEM is needed for everybody — that was always our belief — not just for scientists and engineers, but for everybody, '' said the network's executive director, Rich Rosen.
He said that the Metro Early College easily could have been made into another elite academy that turned out 100 of the best and brightest students each year, but the organizers wanted more than just another single, excellent school.
''That would just keep putting 100 more excellent students into a leaky trough that's leaking thousands of them at the same time,'' Rosen said.
Typically, students at the Ohio STEM schools are selected by lotteries they enter because of their interest in math and science.
The Linden-McKinley STEM High School in Columbus, which opened this fall along with Akron's middle school, will attempt to replicate the idea with a regular neighborhood school open to all who live there.
John Higgins can be reached at 330-996-3792 or jhiggins@thebeaconjournal.com.
The National Inventors Hall of Fame School belongs to an emerging network of Ohio schools that focus on STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) disciplines.
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