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- Socialists’ Milwaukee golden age and the light it sheds now
- Milwaukee Public Schools, facing crises, should close 25 schools, report warns
- Easy graders make real life harder
- For glimpse of a dismal Wisconsin future, just look at our Great Lakes neighbor
- Referendums on development could kill state’s growth
- Measure what matters: family structure and its impact on learning
- Wisconsin’s southern border shows what freedom brings
- When students harm themselves economically by going to college
Browsing: Reports
Work matters most
A survey of Wisconsin public opinion
No issue in Wisconsin government has grown faster in the last decade than special education. It has accelerated to a $1 billion per year educational program with little accountability
What are Wisconsin high schoolers learning about history?
An examination of potential cost savings
A survey of Wisconsin public opinion
Revenue Sharing and Native American Casinos in Wisconsin
Where did they go?
The University of Wisconsin-Madison, the state’s flagship campus, is increasingly important to the future of Wisconsin. In a new century in which the economy is becoming ever more reliant on knowledge, the state’s lead university must be able to step up and better serve its constituency
Over the past generation, political correctness has advanced by leaps and bounds on our nation’s campuses.
A survey of Wisconsin public opinion
Who is leaving the state? Where are they going?
Options and Opportunities
An examination of the implementation of competitive contracting and privatization by Wisconsin’s government
Wisconsin’s teacher-led insurgency
We know that in 1990 there were over 96,000 women on AFDC in Wisconsin. Today, there are less than 8,000.
A good value for taxpayers or a case of market abuse?
A study of 587 Wisconsin residents who expect to vote was conducted by telephone October 18 through October 21, 2000.…
A further evaluation of the SAGE program
Wisconsin’s Regional Employment Growth The Wisconsin economy in the 1990s benefited from the long period of growth experienced by the…

