Browsing: Education

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Wisconsin’s teacher compensation system is outdated, out-of-touch, and not designed to attract and retain top talent.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

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,…