Education Issues

Here are several recent letters and opinion pieces discussing education issues.

●          Fiscal challenge still faces district. Article published in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on April 26, 2003. Pushes for continued reform of the district.

●          MPS is challenged again by Korte's departure. Published in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on June 22, 2002. Discusses the challenges of choosing a new superintendent.

●          Testing gives districts a tool to measure progress. Published in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on Jan. 12, 2002. Explains what annual testing of students can accomplish. Reprinted as part of EducationNews.org’s Defense of Testing series.

 ●         'Anti-Testers' Skew Goals in Milwaukee. Letter published in Education Week (October 3, 2001). Discusses some of the political challenges in implementing an accountability program.

 ●         Schools learn integration obtained through coercion is short-lived. Re-published by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on May 13, 2000 (originally published in Education Week). Argues that integration efforts need a new paradigm.

 ●         School Choice: Changing the Vision for Public Education. An interview with School Reform News (May 1999).

 ●         Quantitative vs. Qualitative: Envisioning a 'Partnership' in Educational Research. A letter published in Education Week (January 7, 2004). Also available on the Education Week site.

 ●         The Future of No Child Left Behind. A commentary published in EducationNews.org on April 20, 2004. Argues for a system of rating schools that incorporates information on students.

Other Issues

 ●         A closer look at community. Letter published in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on January 18, 2003, concerning revised figures that showed debunked former statistics used to describe Milwaukee as “hypersegregated.”

 ●         Comment on the August 8 Decision by WisDot. A suggested strategy for developing support for a pedestrian/bicycle lane on Milwaukee’s Hoan bridge. Published on the Web in August 2002.

 ●         Concealed-carry law unlikely to make Wisconsin safer. In a column from Nov. 1, 2003 Milwaukee Journal Sentinel columnist Greg Stanford describes my analysis of FBI crime data and whether or not states have concealed weapons laws.