Is there a new McCarthyism afoot?
We all had a good laugh last week when Wisconsin State Sen. Glenn Grothman (R-West Bend) put out a press release asking, exasperatedly, “Why…
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One Last Chance for Input on Bay View Middle and High School
Hi, kids. Remember me? Yeah, yeah, long time no blog–in no small part because of what’s been going on at My School. After a…
Read MoreTeacher Compensation in the News
I am so late to this I probably need to serve a month of detention, but here goes … In the wake of Act…
Read MoreOne Test Score Does Not An Honest Picture Make
A few months back, I had a small tête-à-tête with an op-ed columnist in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, who’d written mean things about the…
Read MorePrincipal training: Are we doing it wrong?
If you ask a question like that, the answer is almost always, “Yes, of course.” (A more cynical me might have written, “This is…
Read MoreToo late, evidence that collective bargaining works
This got some notice in the media a few months ago when it was first discussed, but the Milwaukee Public Schools officially said today…
Read MoreUsing NAEP cut scores devastates, disserves our students
Yeah, I think I made up that word, disserves. But I mean it; this new plan to use NAEP cut scores to grade schools…
Read MoreWhat kind of district is MPS going to be? Aide benefit question offers a guess at the answer
At its regular monthly meeting last week, the Milwaukee Board of School Directors voted to limit the availability of benefits to non-full time employees…
Read MoreThe Crisis of MPS’s Invisible Students, Part Three: Solutions
To sum up where we are: On Tuesday, I examined a large sample of students from the Milwaukee Public Schools, comparing achievement between students…
Read MoreThe crisis of MPS’s invisible students, part two: Implications
Yesterday, I broke down the numbers: Milwaukee Public Schools students who change schools within a year before they take the state’s standardized test (WKCE)…
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