Browsing: K-12 Education

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.

Conservative hopes brighten with the new season “You can cut all the flowers,” observed Pablo Neruda, “but you cannot keep…

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

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…

From open primaries to school choice, Wisconsin has led the way for the nation By Warren Kozak What is it…

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

To refloat the state budget and to save education, he had to break the power of the unions By Richard…

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…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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…