Browsing: K-12 Education

A promising path: Blended / online learning in Wisconsin’s K-12 schools. Featuring guest speakers Susan Patrick and Michael Horn. Sponsored by the Badger Institute and the Robert M. La Follette School of Public Affairs at UW-Madison.

It is counterproductive to force school districts to rebrand a popular district-option while the state expands the competitive atmosphere of K-12 education.

Taking small steps to tone down the rhetoric on both sides and demonstrate why increased trust is warranted is a much more realistic and preferable route.

Superintendent Thornton fails to inspire innovation and openness, three former administrators say in candid interviews By early summer, as Greg…

Liberals and conservatives see starkly different worlds through it The statewide expansion of the school choice program has left its…

The new program will create an additional expense to the state. However, it is possible that the loss in GPR may be offset by the positive fiscal impact of reducing declining enrollment trends in private schools.

In New Orleans, through the first Recovery School District in the nation, the percentage of students attending failing schools there has been reduced from 78% to 40%.

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

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…