Rethinking Schools, the Milwaukee-based education reform outfit that encourages improvements in America’s schools through pursuit of social justice, has a new book out. Pencils Down is an anthology of short texts about tests, about how, when, and why American students get tested and the effects of that overwhelming fact of American educational life. I began [...]
Have you ever heard about something so absurd that you can’t quite believe that it even happened? Bernie Madoff comes to mind for me—I still can’t quite figure out how he pulled off such a scam. I get the same feeling when I think about what has been happening in Wisconsin. Only this time, it’s [...]
More than 2,500 students from schools across the city will sing and perform with one voice Wednesday evening as Milwaukee Public Schools’ Biennial Music Festival opens to non-MPS schools for the first time in its 88-year history. The 44th Biennial Music Festival is set for 6:30 p.m. Wednesday evening at the U.S. Cellular Arena in [...]
Students at Brookfield Central High School and Brookfield East High School are the first in southern Wisconsin to use a high-tech web-based platform to bring complex financial concepts to life for today’s digital generation. The interactive platform – provided by at no cost to the schools by Spring Bank and EverFi, Inc. – uses the [...]
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Greendale High School graduation rate for 2011 was 99.1%, an increase of 1.3 points over the previous year. Learn more: greendale.k12.wi.us/district/news/…
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Drop the Pineapple and nobody gets hurt: “Pencils Down” and the modern American culture of testing
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Rethinking Schools, the Milwaukee-based education reform outfit that encourages improvements in America’s schools through pursuit of social justice, has a new book out. Pencils Down is an anthology of short texts about tests, about how, when, and why American students get tested and the effects of that overwhelming fact of American educational life. I began [...]
Any parent knows that kids can and will surprise you. For example,
Have you ever heard about something so absurd that you can’t quite believe that it even happened? Bernie Madoff comes to mind for me—I still can’t quite figure out how he pulled off such a scam. I get the same feeling when I think about what has been happening in Wisconsin. Only this time, it’s [...]
More than 2,500 students from schools across the city will sing and perform with one voice Wednesday evening as Milwaukee Public Schools’ Biennial Music Festival opens to non-MPS schools for the first time in its 88-year history. The 44th Biennial Music Festival is set for 6:30 p.m. Wednesday evening at the U.S. Cellular Arena in [...]
Students at Brookfield Central High School and Brookfield East High School are the first in southern Wisconsin to use a high-tech web-based platform to bring complex financial concepts to life for today’s digital generation. The interactive platform – provided by at no cost to the schools by Spring Bank and EverFi, Inc. – uses the [...]
On Thursday, May 3, at 10 a.m. Wisconsin Vision will provide free eyeglasses to about 50 students at Vieau School, 823 S. 4th St., as part of a growing program that has helped address vision problems for hundreds of Milwaukee Public School (MPS) students in need. Roughly 95 percent of Vieau students come from low-income [...]
Not that I’m unhappy where I am–I am not really thinking about leaving MPS for the burbs. But the recent moves rearranging Oconomowoc High School and its teachers suggests that if the time ever comes I do search for greener pastures, Oconomowoc doesn’t have them. Here’s what the deal is, courtesy of Erin Richards of [...]
Every business owner realizes the importance of a skilled and educated workforce. The power of any organization lies in its people and their ability to wisely and effectively advance its goals. Thus, it’s no surprise that education is a key driver of economic development. A community that provides its children with the best educational experiences [...]
I talked to Meagan Holman, 8th district representative on the Milwaukee Board of School Directors, a couple of weeks ago, well before the Superintendent’s proposed 2012-2013 budget dropped. One of her biggest laments about this past year is that MPS faced, in 2011-2012, a massive funding reduction under the state budget prepared by Scott Walker [...]
By Sue Bietila Even before Gov. Scott Walker and the state legislature made massive cuts to education last year, Milwaukee Public Schools students were struggling to receive an adequate level of health and medical care at school. I started my current job as a school nurse at a MPS high school three years ago, and [...]
By Kim Cosier Much has been written about the achievement gap in Milwaukee Public Schools. Hands are wrung over our students’ test scores and heads shake each time a school is declared to be “in need of improvement.” Very little is made, however, of the “opportunity gap,” as renowned education professor Richard Milner refers to [...]
Last week, MPS’ Albert Kagel School in Walker’s Point celebrated International Day and though I couldn’t make it down to check it out, I asked principal
If you ask me why I choose to be a volunteer tutor with the children of MPS it would be an impossibility to narrow the limitless number of responses that could be given. The children of this city, simply put, are the greatest product we have to offer to the future. They are the embodiment [...]
By Jasmine Alinder The National Library Legislative Days are April 23-24 at our nation’s capital. While members of the National Library Association are reminding our legislators why libraries are so important, it gives us an opportunity to reflect on why books and libraries are crucial in our children’s public schools. My daughter is one of [...]
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