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Browsing: Education
While NBA players tout education reform, Milwaukee school officials continue to rig the game.
Suspension policies advanced by the race-grievance complex harm both students and teachers
Six years after policy began, classrooms are out of control, teachers are afraid and students – black and white – are suffering
With fewer students and huge deficits likely, the state should consider closing some campuses and following online model for certain courses
Cursive writing benefits learning and students’ brains
Bill would expand work, scholarship opportunities for young caddies
The district adopts a policy that keeps parents in the dark about their gender-transitioning children
Over 180 credit unions and banks across Wisconsin already offer student loan refinancing products and/or student loans.
Wisconsin should rethink its entire teacher certification process
Outside of UW-Madison, the argument that the colleges have huge multiplier effect on communities and the state is nonsensical
Lack of minority high school and college grads and wide prosperity gaps will only exacerbate the region’s growing employee shortage, business leaders fear
In UW System and on Madison campus, women dominate in degrees, personnel and leadership roles
Activist leanings and lack of ideological diversity among the knocks against growing Gender and Women’s Studies major
UW-Madison journalism center and women’s studies major raise some questions — and eyebrows
Principal Julieane Cook of St. Martini Lutheran School on Milwaukee’s south side takes time out twice a day from her administrative duties for “sensory breaks” – where she works with special needs students because no additional staff or resources are available. Private school principals and administrators say in a Badger Institute survey that many special needs children in private schools are left behind because of inequitable allocation of federal resources. Click on the News tab at the top of the page to read the story.
Sunshine Week: Records request illustrates lack of transparency of federal school funding
It would seem a simple question to ask of any public agency: How much money do you spend and on what?
Special needs students are left behind because of inequitable allocation of federal resources, administrators say in survey
‘I have to do a lot of paperwork and spend time testing my kids instead of teaching my kids’
Federal requirements in special ed are especially burdensome, educators tell Badger Institute in survey
Early childhood and special education teacher Sheila Noordzy has her hands full teaching a class of 18 3-to-5-year-old children in the Chequamegon School District in Park Falls. She often puts in long hours, partly due to federal paperwork that takes her away from working with the children. Federal requirements in special education are especially burdensome, educators tell the Badger Institute in a survey.