Published April 23, 2012
Having attended one of the nation's best public high schools, Harvard doctoral student Asad L. Asad - a graduate of Rufus King High - bristles at the fact that local media often portray the Milwaukee Public Schools negatively by highlighting tensions within the district instead of celebrating its students' many accomplishments.
Published April 17, 2012
As an advocate of public education, working for over 80,000 Milwaukee students, my goal is to steer education policy and funding away from privatization, and toward teaching all students with equity in funding and resources.
Published Jan. 30, 2012
A few weeks ago we quietly launched a new Milwaukee website; one with a tight focus on pre-K-12 education in the Milwaukee area with an eye on the wider Wisconsin scene. Here's why.
Published Jan. 30, 2012
While few might think of Milwaukee as a hotbed of activity in the world of education books, some know better. There have been other book about and / or by local education figures and here are some notable ones.
Published Jan. 11, 2012
With the start of the new year comes a renewed focus on schools. Milwaukee Public Schools opened its enrollment period on Monday and many other districts are also signing up students in coming weeks for autumn. If you don't have a school or three that you want to tour, the GreatSchools Milwaukee School Fairs offer a means to narrow down your options.
A current TV attack ad blames Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett for the abysmally low graduation rate of Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS): about half of all ninth-grade students ever graduate from high school. But is this fair?MPS, like every other school d...
When I was younger, I didn't spend a lot of time at Summerfest. Or rather - I didn't spend a lot of time in the kids' area. By the time I started going to Summerfest, it was mostly to drag a very harassed parent to a stage for a band that I had to see. Unfortunately for me, the kids' area was s...
Friday September 3rd, 2010 - Somewhere At Sea No luggage. No sympathy. Life goes on. I’m taking my knocks out here but it’s all a big education. I’m learning a lot every day, but that’s never a bad thing. This is an experience that will surely make me a better ...
Brewers’ Hill & The Beerline—where old meets the new! The Old: Brewers’ Hill is among the city’s oldest residential neighborhoods. Originally surrounded by both commercial and industrial concerns, the area developed such that business owners and laborers li...
Two influential names in American party politics have passed from the scene in recent days; each provides through his example valuable pragmatic lessons in a highly partisan time. Republican Jack Kemp is the more prominent, but Democrat Sam Beer is equally instructive. &nbs...
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