Browsing: Education

Forty years ago, Howard Fuller was an angry young man working as a community organizer for an anti-poverty program in…

Jeff Ziegler is a “teacher leader” in the Madison Metropolitan School District who has never made any secret of his…

The Badger paradox Winston Churchill once described Soviet Russia as “a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.” Apparently,…

Mavis Roesch began teaching in the St. Louis Public Schools in 1967. Soon after, she moved to Milwaukee, teaching first…

By Charles J. Sykes “A little Madness in the Spring,” observed Emily Dickinson, “is wholesome even for the King.” Wisconsin…

The statewide, uniform use of value-added analyses already being done in Wisconsin is a step toward giving teachers and principals additional tools to meet the needs of Wisconsin pupils.

Alfie Kohn’s startling message on schools may be hurting Wisconsin’s poorest students By Michael J. Petrilli One hundred years ago,…

Bayfield — Over 300 miles from the never-ending debates in Madison over how to help struggling schools, in a small, largely…

The age of uncertainty What if?Let’s be honest. Nobody knows what lies ahead, except that 2012 will be the biggest,…

Investment in young children supports economic development by boosting the long-run productivity of the labor force and reducing public costs.

Wisconsin’s teacher compensation system is outdated, out-of-touch, and not designed to attract and retain top talent.

A troubling attitude seems prevalent today in many professional circles: confusing one’s own self-interest or viewpoint with the public interest.…

Winston Churchill famously called Russia “a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma.” Those words also apply to University…

Justice speaks David Prosser has a lot he’d like to get off his chest. Given the ongoing investigations, the Supreme…

His combative conservatism is a welcome challenge to Bush-era compromises with Democrats. By Frederick M. Hess Frederick M. Hess is…

The liberal counterattack wilts in the summer heat As spring turned into summer, Wisconsin remained the center of the political…

MPS has a fundamental lack of focus. Instilling accountability will require a structural and cultural transformation similar to the one the Milwaukee Police Department has undergone — one that revolves around measurable objectives.

In the academic programs of Wisconsin’s public schools, economics and personal finance have a weak presence. Despite the obvious importance of the subject matter, relatively few students take courses in economics or personal finance, relatively few teachers are qualified to teach such courses, and educators generally do not see the situation as problematic.

If the governor’s budget forces some administrators to cut back on staff to the point where they don’t have time to worry about political correctness in the classroom or the lunchroom, that’s fine by me.

Eight months into Greg Thornton’s attempt to bring the systemic change needed to reverse years of decline in the Milwaukee…