Browsing: Education

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…

By Charles J. Sykes Everything changed for the better, from politics to sports, in Wisconsin. Winter was the season for…

Kaleem Caire is tired of waiting. He has watched in frustration as yet another generation of young black men fail…

It has been 10 years since Wisconsin overhauled an old set of rules for state teacher licensure (PI 3 and PI 4) and replaced it with a new set called PI 34. This report assesses PI 34 in an effort to learn whether it has made good on its high expectations.

Encouraging dialogue between universities and their constituents in business, industry, agriculture and general citizenry can focus the educational process on needs.

Stephanie Findley learned the hard way that while the public favors school reform, the political system is rigged to kill…

Remember Cindy Sheehan, the anti-war stalker of President George W. Bush? The poor lady’s 15 minutes of fame expired a…

A researcher finds mixed but encouraging results By Patrick Wolf On a rainy May morning in 2008, my research team…

Spring backward April, as T.S. Eliot reminded us, is the cruelest month, and this year it was especially cruel to…

It is just minutes before the bell rings to end Tom Schalmo’s eighth-grade reading class at Milwaukee’s Burbank Elementary School,…

The street that Mr. T. Quiles lives on with his family on the west side of Milwaukee literally dead-ends into the playground of Luther Burbank School.

Marquette takes a bigger role in Milwaukee’s policy debates By Sunny Schubert Just north of the new Marquette Interchange-the busiest…

It was an off-the-record conversation early last summer with a major figure in education politics in Wisconsin. I suggested that…

Lake Wobegon has nothing on the UW-Madison School of Education. All of the children in Garrison Keillor’s fictional Minnesota town…

The foibles of progressive schooling prompt a search for a better alternative By Warren Kozak Here’s how my formal education…

The unfunded liability for these health care costs stands at $2.6 billion, more than double the district’s entire annual operating budget. These costs will ultimately be borne by Milwaukee taxpayers, and, because of the state school funding formula, taxpayers statewide.

They look to MPS’s Robert Peterson and his social justice political agenda. By Sol Stern Sol Stern is author of…

Virtual schools, viewed skeptically by the educational establishment, have a champion in this veteran teacher. By Sunny Schubert Kathy Hennings…