Friday, September 23, 2011

Let's not focus on the achievement gap

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A thought-provoking essay in the current issue of National Affairs by the prolific and sardonic Rick Hess of the American Enterprise Inst...
Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Public sector labor relations in the "new normal"

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Given how recent legislative events in Madison have transformed the lives of local government administrators in Wisconsin, it is ironic that...
Friday, September 16, 2011

Networked schools outperform independent schools in world's largest school choice market

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Milwaukee's private school voucher program, now in its twelfth year, is dwarfed by the 30-year-old voucher program in Chile, where almos...
Friday, September 9, 2011

The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle applied to schools

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Werner Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle states that one cannot simultaneously measure the location of a particle while also measuring ...
Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Escalating health challenges for inner city Milwaukee

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Two recent reports have raised concerns about healthcare access for low-income Milwaukeeans. First, The Business Journal Serving Greater Mil...
Thursday, August 11, 2011

Region's property taxes kept under control in 2011

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The Public Policy Forum's annual analysis of property values and property taxes in the seven-county southeast Wisconsin region - release...
Thursday, August 4, 2011

Apps for Milwaukee

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The open government data movement is a global effort to increase government transparency, civic participation and innovation through public...