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• Fiscal estimates suggest quality early childhood education is costly yet beneficial

  —Milwaukee Talkie

  The annual cost of operating a high-quality child care or early education center in southeast Wisconsin is an estimated $11,500 per child, more than double the cost of a typical program in the region today, according to the Public Policy Forum’s latest report from its three-year research initiative on early [...]

  Posted: December 22, 2009, 7:30am EST
  by Melissa Kovach

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• Wisconsin Education: Do We Even need A Race?

  —Paul Soglin: Waxing America

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  When I read the headline that the Wisconsin State Journal placed on Julie Underwood's opinion piece, Wisconsin risks stumbling in 'Race to Top' I was bothered by its implications. Underwood is the dean of the University of Wisconsin School of Education. I inferred from the headline that while Underwood was' [...]

  Posted: December 22, 2009, 5:42am EST
  by paul soglin

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• Out of whack?

  —FightingBob.com

  You decide. Sixty-five students were arrested at the Berkley campus last week protesting a 32 percent increase in tuition. Students at a number of campuses in cash-starved California have protested and many have been arrested. What? They think access to higher education is important? C'mon.
  
  The Chronicle of Higher Education,' [...]

  Fetched: December 21, 2009, 8:55am EST
  by Ed Garvey

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• Washburn blood drive Monday

  —Apostle Islands Navigator

  The Washburn High School Business Education volunteers and FCCLA are sponsoring a Red Cross Blood Drive on Monday, Dec. 21, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the high school gymnasium. Please give the gift of life for the holidays. If you would like to make an appointment, please contact [...]

  Posted: December 18, 2009, 5:00pm EST
  by The Admiral

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• Colleges need more accountability

  —Lake Winneblogo

  The left-wing journal Democracy Now calls for more accountability in higher education.   The author argues that IT can provide the information needed to improve college performance.  

  The article claims that NSSE and the CLA are going to be saviors for higher ed.  I guess the assessment gurus got [...]

  Posted: December 17, 2009, 3:40pm EST
  

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• Gramsci in America

  —Dad29

  Nice essay (part 2) here on Gramsci's effect on America.
  
  Italian Marxist philosopher Antonio Gramsci posited that what holds a society together are the pillars of its culture: the structures and institutions of education, family, law, media and religion, as they provide the social cohesion necessary to a [...]

  Posted: December 16, 2009, 7:49pm EST
  

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• Mayoral control opponents, supporters lobby in Madison today

  —News and Opinion

  Representatives from several Milwaukee-area groups gathered in Madison today to oppose legislation that would allow the city's mayor to choose the superintendent of Milwaukee Public Schools, said Bob Peterson of the Coalition to Stop the MPS Takeover. Meanwhile, another group of organizations and individuals called Education Reform Now Advocacy headed to [...]

  Posted: December 16, 2009, 3:19pm EST
  

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• Registration for the Mt. Ashwabay Development Ski Team

  —Apostle Islands Navigator

  Date: December 26, 2009 http://www.mtashwabay.org/ The Ashwabay Outdoor Educational Foundation will hold registration for the Mt. Ashwabay Development Ski Team or (M.A.D. SKI)program. The program is a 10 week training program that is conducted by USSA Licensed Coaches and begins January 9th. Posted in Bayfield County Tagged: Mount Ashwabay [...]

  Posted: December 16, 2009, 12:58pm EST
  by The Admiral

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• About those schools in which the state superintendent could intervene

  —News and Opinion

  Late yesterday, an aide from state Sen. John Lehman's (D-Racine) office gave us a list of five public schools in Milwaukee that could be affected by a new bill introduced yesterday in the Senate Committee on Education. The problem: two of the five schools on the list the aide gave the [...]

  Posted: December 16, 2009, 12:03pm EST
  

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• Questions for Tom Barrett

  —No Runny Eggs

  (H/T – Charlie Sykes, who called it his Wednesday Hot Read a day early)

  Rep. Brett Davis (R-Oregon), ranking member on the Assembly Education Committee, sent the following letter to Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett regarding the proposal before the Legislature to have the mayor take over Milwaukee Public Schools [...]

  Posted: December 16, 2009, 7:18am EST
  by steveegg

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• Free education offers lessons for the health-care debate

  —Something To Die For

  GUESTVIEW Free education offers lessons for the health-care debate By JOSIAH CANTRALL Have you ever started watching a movie you thought was a sweet romance only to discover it actually was a graphic horror film? Hmm, sometimes a little research and common sense is quite helpful. The latest Rasmussen [...]

  Posted: December 15, 2009, 7:26pm EST
  by josiahcantrall

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• My column in the West Bend Daily

  —Something To Die For

  GUESTVIEW Free education offers lessons for the health-care debate By JOSIAH CANTRALL Have you ever started watching a movie you thought was a sweet romance only to discover it actually was a graphic horror film? Hmm, sometimes a little research and common sense is quite helpful. The latest Rasmussen [...]

  Posted: December 15, 2009, 7:26pm EST
  by josiahcantrall

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• GREAT MOMENTS IN EDUCATION REFORM

  —Charlie Sykes

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• What to Watch for at Tonight's Protect Wisconsin's Vote Education Summit

  —One Wisconsin Now

  Voter rights and expanding access to the polls are the main topics of the Institute for One Wisconsin’s second annual “Protect Wisconsin’s Vote Education Summit,” set for Tuesday at Madison’s Museum of Contemporary Art on State Street. Among the speakers will be Adam Skaggs, Counsel in the Democracy Program at [...]

  Posted: December 15, 2009, 11:20am EST
  by Robert

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• Comment on Tom Barrett's Mayoral Takeover of MPS Plan

  —Forward our Motto

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  I don't like the Mayoral takeover of Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS) plan that Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett is pushing. The main problem with the plan? It's a plan for a Mayoral takeover that claims educational improvement as a side-effect, when the plan should be a plan to improve education' [...]

  Posted: December 15, 2009, 5:05am EST
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• Maybe they can't screen out non-lefties from education

  —Patrick McIlheran: Right On

  The Star Tribune’s Katherine Kersten finds progress on that story of how the University of Minnesota was trying to close off the field of teaching to all but the ideologically pure. See Kersten’s earlier reporting here, but she sums it up this way: “The Race, Culture, Class and Gender Task Group of [...]

  Posted: December 14, 2009, 2:15pm EST
  

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• Kevin Jennings: Fisting

  —FREEDOM EDEN

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  Given all the revelations that have come to light, I do not understand how Kevin Jennings, founder of Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network (GLSEN), can be Obama's Safe Schools Czar.
  
  Early in fall, some very disturbing stuff about Jennings was discussed.
  
  Kevin Jennings, Safe Schools' [...]

  Posted: December 14, 2009, 11:30am EST
  by Mary

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• Republican Announces Candidacy for 45th Assembly District

  —Wisconsin GOP Blog

  Republican Jim Reseburg of Beloit announced his candidacy for the 45th State Assembly seat today. Reseburg, a former City of Beloit Fire Chief and Beloit Board of Education member, says job creation is his foremost priority. "I want to see the 45th Assembly District fulfill its history and promise of" [...]

  Posted: December 14, 2009, 8:38am EST
  

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• West Bend School Board Meeting MONDAY night 7 p.m. - BARTON SCHOOL

  —WISSUP = WISCONSIN SPEAKS UP

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  Regular Board of Education Meeting
  Barton Elementary - Gym
  614 School Place
  West Bend WI 53090 December 14, 2009
  7:00 p.m.
  
  
  AGENDA
  7:00 1. Call to Order
  2. Pledge of Allegiance
  7:01 3. Approval of Agenda
  7:02 4. Recognition of Hannah Lawrence as a state qualifier for [...]

  Posted: December 13, 2009, 1:29pm EST
  by West Bend Citizen Advocate

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• Glenn Grothman: still wrong for denying real sex education.

  —What did Glenn Grothman get wrong this week?

  When fear replaces clear headedness, you get this: religious groups that don't believe in evolution attempting to foist a half-baked health policy on the rest of us.
  
  Message from Sen. Grothman concerning SEX ED bill
  It is vital for all sincere Christians to call their State Senators at' [...]

  Posted: December 12, 2009, 11:36am EST
  

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• Glenn Grothman: still wrong for denying real sex education.

  —The Motley Cow

  When fear replaces clear headedness, you get this: religious groups that don't believe in evolution attempting to foist a half-baked health policy on the rest of us.
  
  Message from Sen. Grothman concerning SEX ED bill
  It is vital for all sincere Christians to call their State Senators at' [...]

  Posted: December 12, 2009, 11:22am EST
  

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• Bullying is bullying. Period.

  —Wisconsin Family Voice

  The State Senate passed an omnibus “school safety” bill (SB 154) in late October of this year that addressed, among other things, “school bullying.”  Right now the bill is sitting in the Assembly Education Committee, where it will remain until the legislature comes back into session early next year. “Bullying bills” [...]

  Posted: December 11, 2009, 2:10pm EST
  by Amy Lewis

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• Teachers' Unions, Obama: Killing School Choice

  —FREEDOM EDEN

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  Sheryl Blunt, The Weekly Standard, writes about the calculated efforts of the National Education Association, the American Federation of Teachers, Democrats, and Obama and his administration to stand in the way of poor children in Washington D.C. to have the opportunity to attend private schools via the Washington Scholarship [...]

  Posted: December 09, 2009, 12:12am EST
  by Mary

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• Snow Emergency - Declared?

  —This side of town . . .

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  You figure this out . . . As someone who lives downtown, this is the worst public education I've seen. There were no flyers on the cars this year, there were no efforts to communicate with new residents in the area. No education about getting us to park off the' [...]

  Posted: December 08, 2009, 12:44pm EST
  by Brenda Konkel

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• Educated parents

  —Across the Board

  Kudos to Lennise Crampton and others like her — parents who have become very involved in their kids’ education by volunteering, working or just being present during the school day. The benefits are obvious: Children blossom when they know a parent cares, and a parent can learn to better monitor [...]

  Posted: December 08, 2009, 9:25am EST
  

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• Educated parents

  —News and Opinion

  Kudos to Lennise Crampton and others like her — parents who have become very involved in their kids’ education by volunteering, working or just being present during the school day. The benefits are obvious: Children blossom when they know a parent cares, and a parent can learn to better monitor [...]

  Posted: December 08, 2009, 9:25am EST
  

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• The Harlem Children's Zone and Milwaukee

  —News and Opinion

  Last night, "60 Minutes" aired a segment on the much-hyped Harlem Children's Zone in New York City, an organization that has tried, through education, to put historically low-achieving minority children on the path out of poverty. Though "HCZ" has been on the radar of many in the education world for some [...]

  Posted: December 07, 2009, 5:46pm EST
  

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• A date that still lives in infamy – 68 years later

  —No Runny Eggs

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  I originally posted this in 2007. Let’s re-run that, and add to it.

  Hat-tip for the video – Jawa Howie. Now, watch and remember (or learn if you’re a recent product of public school education):

  Click here to view the embedded video.

  Of course, the lessons are rapidly being forgotten, [...]

  Posted: December 07, 2009, 10:00am EST
  by steveegg

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• Oblique Journalism

  —Brewtown Gumshoe

  The Journal Sentinel has an inanely meandering editorial - Not a tax hell, but state still needs better revenue mix - pushing for decreased taxes, service maintenance, alongside "innovation and entrepreneurial spirit," hinging on increased educational outcomes. Many good talking-points and topics-of-the-moment, but the editorial is quite sparse on [...]

  Posted: December 06, 2009, 11:24am EST
  

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• Sex education is important too

  —Across the Board

  If children are given condoms in public schools they should also be given information about abstaining from sex. They should be required to sign a card that indicates that they understand the risks of sexual intercourse to both parties and acknowledge that abstaining is the only way to prevent sexually [...]

  Posted: December 04, 2009, 11:24am EST
  

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