Editing Ohio (section)

==Education==
{{Main|Education in Ohio}}
{{See also|List of colleges and universities in Ohio}}
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Ohio's system of [[public education]] is outlined in Article VI of the [[Ohio Constitution|state constitution]], and in Title XXXIII of the [[Ohio Revised Code]]. Substantively, Ohio's system is similar to those found in [[Education in the United States|other states]]. At the State level, the [[Ohio Department of Education]] governs primary and secondary educational institutions. At the municipal level, there are approximately 700 school districts statewide. The [[Ohio Board of Regents]] coordinates and assists with Ohio's institutions of higher education.

Ohio is home to several public and private institutions of higher learning. Prior to statehood, the [[Northwest Ordinance]] of 1787 included a provision to establish an institution of higher education in the region, resulting in the establishment of [[Ohio University]] in 1804 as Ohio's first college.<ref>See [[College Lands]]: Ohio University Chartered, and [[Land Ordinance of 1785]], and {{cite book|title = A compilation of laws, treaties, resolutions, and ordinances: of the general and state governments, which relate to lands in the state of Ohio; including the laws adopted by the governor and judges; the laws of the territorial legislature; and the laws of this state, to the years 1815–16 | publisher = G. Nashee, State Printer | year = 1825 |url = https://archive.org/details/acompilationlaw00swangoog|page = [https://archive.org/details/acompilationlaw00swangoog/page/n24 17] }}</ref><ref>{{cite web  |title = Ohio Lands: A Short History  |url = http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~maggie/ohio-lands/ohl5.html  |access-date = March 27, 2011  |url-status = live  |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110520040556/http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~maggie/ohio-lands/ohl5.html  |archive-date = May 20, 2011  }}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title = Historical Collections of Ohio ... an Encyclopedia of the State | edition = The Ohio Centennial|volume = 1| editor = Henry Howe |publisher = The State of Ohio |year = 1907 |chapter = The Public Lands of Ohio | author = John Kilbourne |page=226}} [https://archive.org/details/acompilationlaw00swangoog/page/n235 <!-- pg=226 quote=College Lands. --> ''Act of February 18, 1804, v. 2, L. O. p. 193, An act establishing a University in the town of Athens''].</ref> The [[University System of Ohio]] includes all of Ohio's public institutions of higher education. It includes 14 four-year [[research university|research universities]], 24 branch and regional campuses, and 23 [[community college]]s and [[Institute of technology|technical colleges]]. [[Ohio State University]] is the largest of the system, with over 60,000 students at its main campus in Columbus.<ref name="headcount">As of fall 2021. {{cite web | title=Preliminary Headcount, Fall Term 2021 | url=https://www.ohiohighered.org/sites/default/files/uploads/hei/data-updates/final_ph_rpt_2021.xlsx | publisher=Ohio Department of Higher Education | access-date=February 20, 2022}}</ref>

[[Kenyon College]] is the state's oldest private [[liberal arts college]], established in 1824 by an [[Episcopal Church (United States)|Episcopal bishop]] to train clergy on the Ohio frontier. [[Oberlin College]], established in 1833, was among the earliest colleges in the US to admit African Americans in 1835, and became the first to admit women in 1837.<ref name="Jones-WilsonAsbury1996">{{cite book |author1=Faustine Childress Jones-Wilson |author2=Charles A. Asbury |author3=D. Kamili Anderson |author4=Sylvia M. Jacobs |author5=Margo Okazawa-Rey |title=Encyclopedia of African-American Education |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ni2qhq1n1d4C&pg=PA339 |year=1996 |publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group |isbn=978-0-313-28931-6 |pages=339– |access-date=May 3, 2018 |archive-date=December 17, 2019 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20191217022314/https://books.google.com/books?id=Ni2qhq1n1d4C&pg=PA339 |url-status= live}}</ref>

The [[Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching|Carnegie Foundation]] classifies seven of the state's institutions as tier 1 [[research universities]]: [[Case Western Reserve University]], [[University of Cincinnati]], [[University of Dayton]], [[Kent State University]], Ohio State University, Ohio University, and [[University of Toledo]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Doctoral Universities: Highest Research Activity |url=http://carnegieclassifications.iu.edu/lookup/srp.php?clq=%7B%22basic2005_ids%22%3A%2215%22%7D |publisher=Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education |accessdate=November 14, 2024 }}</ref>

===Libraries===
Ohio is home to some of the nation's highest-ranked public libraries.<ref name="haplr">{{Cite web|url=http://www.haplr-index.com/HAPLR08_CorrectedVersionOctober8_2008.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081028194258/http://www.haplr-index.com/HAPLR08_CorrectedVersionOctober8_2008.pdf|url-status=dead|title=Thomas J. Hennen's American Public Library Ratings for 2006|archive-date=October 28, 2008}}</ref> Major metropolitan public library systems include the [[Cleveland Public Library]], the [[Cuyahoga County Public Library]], the [[Cincinnati and Hamilton County Public Library]], and the [[Columbus Metropolitan Library]]. The [[Ohio Public Library Information Network]] provides Ohio residents with internet access to their 251 public libraries. It also provides Ohioans with free home access to high-quality, subscription research databases.

The [[OhioLINK]] library consortium provides Ohio's college and university libraries with mutual access to their collections. The program allows researchers access to books and other media that might not be otherwise available. [[CLEVNET]], another major library consortium, is based at the Cleveland Public Library and includes 47 public library systems in Northeast Ohio.<ref>{{cite web |title=What is CLEVNET? |publisher=[[CLEVNET]] |url=https://www.clevnet.org/what-is-clevnet/ |date=March 28, 2023 |access-date=July 31, 2023 }}</ref>