Browsing: Education

Report lays out the steps needed to return a culture of excellence to Milwaukee schools and explains why achieving this turnaround will be challenging.

I recall a conversation I had with a teacher five years ago.  At the time, she was teaching in a suburban Milwaukee school and she clearly missed what had been her passion, teaching in the Milwaukee central city.

Almost two full years ago, right at the height of a heated legislative debate in Madison over whether to expand school choice, Disability Rights Wisconsin and the ACLU filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Justice alleging that schools in the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program discriminate against children with disabilities.

Report gives readers a base level of knowledge of school finance to help them better understand key issues surrounding Wisconsin’s education system.

Shortly after November’s presidential election, America’s pundit class was flush with theories about how President Obama could win every battleground…

Wisconsin has a commitment to provide a public education for all of its pupils. However, that commitment comes with the responsibility of giving teachers an instructional environment in which they can succeed and protecting students from the negative effects of misbehaving classmates.

Many children are still all too often denied their right to an appropriate education and recognition as individuals given a fair chance of leading productive and fulfilling lives.

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…