At times I feel like a broken record, asking the same questions over and over again. But as long as our news media continues to leave essential information out of their reports — like pages missing from the middle of a book –, I’m going stay stuck in this groove.
The inspiration today is the [...]
The Chi-Lites, “(For God’s Sake) You’ve Got to Give More Power to the People” (Click to listen).
From Jackie Cody, Oneida County, Wisconsin.
The school funding formula must be changed to offer a long-term solution to the funding of the K-12 public schools in Wisconsin. The elected school officials must take their fight to the [...]
Via Brenda Konkel, This Side of Town…
Here’s your chance to tell the decisions makers what YOU want!
The Library Board and the Surplus Property Committee will be holding a meeting solely to solicit public input prior to issuing a RFP for the downtown library. This is the only item on the agenda. The current proposal for [...]
As promised, a task force associated with the Economic Policy Institute has released a framework for improving education. Here are the highlights from the press release:
1. Continued school improvement efforts. To close achievement gaps, we need to reduce class sizes in early grades for disadvantaged children; attract high-quality teachers in hard-to-staff schools; improve teacher [...]
From “The Impact of the Adequate Yearly Progress Requirement of. the Federal “No Child Left Behind” Act on Schools in the Great Lakes Region,” a study released by the Great Lakes Center for Educational Research and the Education Policy Studies Laboratory at Arizona State University. See also “Many States Have Taken a “Backloaded” Approach to [...]
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James Brown, “Don’t Be a Dropout.”
Lots of news about dropouts and graduation rates recently.
Education Week just published their Diplomas Count report. It is pretty alarmist. Graduation rate scholars Jim Heckman, Paul LaFontaine, Larry Mishel, and [...]
I’m still working through what did and did not happen with Equity at Monday’s MMSD Board of Education meeting (video here, starting at about the 2 hour and 25 minute mark) and how and why things did and did not happen. The very short version is that the Board passed a policy that did [...]
From Milwaukee Public Schools, 2006-7 School Report Card (click to see full report card). When value added is implemented in MMSD, we can expect similar reporting. Note that the gray areas are “error bands,” indicating 95% confidence intervals.
From an email sent by a DPI employee to Peter Sobol of the Monona Grove Board of Education.
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The Cap Times picked up an A.P story on a Legislative Fiscal Bureau report on property taxes. The article says in part:
Taxes paid to schools are by far the largest chunk of a homeowner’s tax bill. They increased 7.4 percent this year.
The biggest thing missing here is that the delay in the state budget [...]
Curtis Mayfield and the Impressions — We’re a Winner (listen)
The Wisconsin Knowledge and Concepts test results for November 2007 have been released (this lag of over six months make the results nearly worthless as a formative assessment for timely targeting at the school, class or individual level). I’ll have more to say about Madison’s [...]
