Education

It’s back-to-school time already! As school begins, is academic tutoring or test prep needed for your child? Waiting until a student is behind in classes or cramming for SAT results in lower scores.

While some say difficult race conversations are overdue, few will disagree that the protests happened so quickly we found ourselves adjusting and determining a stance on all issues – politics, police and black lives.

Last summer, The Princeton Review and Entrepreneur magazine surveyed colleges and universities trying to determine which best serve future entrepreneurs, and two Ohio universities made the list of top 50 undergraduate programs for entrepreneurs.

When Forbes came out with its list of America’s top colleges, I thought a number of Ohio universities would make the top 20.

Cheryl Chase, Ph.D., is a licensed clinical psychologist in private practice in Independence, a suburb of Cleveland.

Recently, I had a chance to visit Metro Catholic School (MCS).

A sold-out crowd of nearly 1,000 guests gathered early this month to raise $1.32 million at the Alleluia Ball to help 108 Catholic schools in the Diocese of Cleveland provide over 3,500 students with tuition assistance.

The bioscience industry is making great strides in our state and that expertise is on display at the upcoming Ohio Bioscience Expo in Columbus. The free expo will be held on October 1 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Center of Science and Industry (COSI) in Columbus.

Ohio is creating a School Safety Center to help prevent and address violence involving schools and students. The newly formed center will be a division of Ohio Homeland Security, with seven state employees assigned to scan social media and websites for threats toward schools.

In December 2008, the last truck rolled off the assembly line of the General Motors plant in Dayton. Then, in 2014, a Chinese company reopened the factory and hired a largely local workforce to make automotive glass. The ensuing cultural clashes put some bumps in the road.