K12 EDUCATION

Title	Author	Year	Publication
My Life and Times with the Madison Schools Up Close, the Author Finds that Politics Obscure Key Educational Issues	Marc Eisen	2007	WI Interest Vol 16 No 1
Requiem for Entitlements	George Lightbourn	2006	WI Interest Vol 15 No 3
The Milwaukee Iron Curtain	Scott Niederjohn Mark C. Schug	2006	WI Interest Vol 15 No 3
The Milwaukee Teacher Residency Requirement: Why It's Bad for Schools, and Why It Won't Go Away	Mark C. Schug Scott Niederjohn	2006	Report Vol 19 No 5
The Public Education Cartel	Joe Williams	2006	WI Interest Vol 15 No 1
An Educational Head Fake: Why Wisconsin's School Aid System Won't Change	George Lightbourn	2006	WI Interest Vol 15 No 1
A Culture of Complacency: The Growing Disconnect Between the Schools and the Workplace	Charles J. Sykes	2006	WI Interest Vol 15 No 1
Learning English in Wisconsin	Sunny Schubert	2006	WI Interest Vol 15 No 1
The Status of High School Education in Wisconsin: A Tale of Two Wisconsins	Philip McDade	2006	Report Vol 19 No 1
Education That Works in the Milwaukee Public Schools: The Benefits from Phonics and Direct Instruction	Sammis White	2005	Report Vol 18 No 4
A Better Way to Teach: How One Madison School Achieved Success by Bucking the District's Favored Approach	Katherine Esposito	2005	WI Interest Vol 14 No 2
The Ugly Politics of Parental Choice Opponents	George Mitchell	2005	WI Interest Vol 14 No 2
Health Insurance for Wisconsin Public Schools: The Case for Competitive Bidding	Miller, James; Niederjohn, Scott and Cotti, Chad	2005	Report Vol 18 No 1
Education Task Force: New Wrapping Can't Disguise Old Ideas	Lightbourn, George	2004	WI Interest Vol 13 No 3
The Politics of Choice: Where are School Choice's Friends?	Sykes, Charles J.	2004	WI Interest Vol 13 No 2
The Education Establishment vs. Conservatives: Some Objects are Closer than They Appear	Lightbourn, George	2004	WI Interest Vol 13 No 2
Milwaukee Public Schools: A City's Lost Economic Promise	Lightbourn, George	2004	WI Interest Vol 13 No 1
The Supply Side of Educational Choice: Providing Capital for Successful Private and Parochial Schools	Sweet, Martin	2003	Report Vol 16 No 9
MPS on the Brink: Election Results Could Force Program Cuts and School Closings to Save Lavish Fringe Benefits	Kass, Mark	2003	WI Interest Vol 12 No 3
School Choice Misinformation: Why Good Journalism Matters	Mitchell, Susan	2003	WI Interest Vol 12 No 2
The Sorry State of Economic and Financial Education in Wisconsin	Schug, Mark C. and Western, D. Richard	2003	WI Interest Vol 12 No 2
Wisconsin's Public Schools: An Economics-Free Zone	Schug, Mark C. and Western, D. Richard	2003	Report Vol 16 No 4
The Public Schools Come Home: Online Education is Changing the Roles of Schools, Teachers and Parents	Eisen, Marc	2002	WI Interest Vol 11 No 3
Rethinking Special Education in Wisconsin	Hruz, Thomas	2002	WI Interest Vol 11 No 3
Are Wisconsin Public School Teachers Really Underpaid?	Niederjohn, M. Scott	2002	WI Interest Vol 11 No 3
Milwaukee's Incredible Shrinking Superintendent	Sykes, Charles J.	2002	WI Interest Vol 11 No 3
Direct Instruction: A Quiet Revolution in Milwaukee Public Schools	Vukmir, Leah	2002	WI Interest Vol 11 No 2
The Growth of Special Education in Wisconsin	Hruz, Thomas	2002	Report Vol 15 No 5
Evaluating World History Texts in Wisconsin Public High Schools	Kengor, Paul	2002	Report Vol 15 No 4
Lies and Distortions About Choice: Setting the Record Straight	Fuller, Howard and Caire, Kaleem	2001	WI Interest Vol 10 No 3
Wisconsin Teacher Compensation: A Bum Deal or a Plum Deal	Hruz, Thomas	2001	WI Interest Vol 10 No 3
School Cap Wars	Mayers, Jeff	2001	WI Interest Vol 10 No 3
Is Junior Ready For Junior Kindergarten	McDade, Philip J.	2001	WI Interest Vol 10 No 3
Charter Schools Grow Up	Dodenhoff, David	2001	WI Interest Vol 10 No 1
2+2=5: Fuzzy Math Invades Wisconsin Schools	Vukmir, Leah	2001	WI Interest Vol 10 No 1
Performance-Based Pay For Teachers In Wisconsin: Options and Opportunities	Hruz, Thomas	2001	Report Vol 14 No 4
Direct Instruction And The Teaching Of Early Reading: Wisconsin's Teacher-Led Insurgency	Schug, Mark C. and Tarver, Sara G. and Western, D. Richard	2001	Report Vol 14 No 2
Quality Control: Merit Pay and Why the Teachers' Unions Stand in the Way	Hruz, Thomas	2000	WI Interest Vol 9 No 3
An Irish Education Lesson For Wisconsin	White, Sammis B.	2000	WI Interest Vol 9 No 3
Horror Stories from the Public Schools	Clowes, George A.	2000	WI Interest Vol 9 No 2
Can Wisconsin Raise the Bar?: Standards-Based Education Reform in Wisconsin	Schug, Mark C. and Western, D. Richard	2000	WI Interest Vol 9 No 2
Political Manipulation of Wisconsin's Students: Environmental Education in Action	Sanera, Michael	2000	WI Interest Vol 9 No 1
Tearing Down the Plantation Walls	Holt, Mikel	2000	WI Interest Vol 9 No 1
The Costs and Benefits of Smaller Classes in Wisconsin: A Further Evaluation Of The SAGE Program	Hruz, Thomas	2000	Report Vol 13 No 6
Standards-Based Education Reform in Wisconsin: What It Will Take to Make It Work	Schug, Mark C. and Western, D. Richard	2000	Report Vol 13 No 1
The War Against Grammar	Mulroy, David	1999	WI Interest Vol 8 No 2
Will Wisconsin Ever Be Up To The Test?	Vukmir, Leah	1999	WI Interest Vol 8 No 2
Distance Learning: Education's New Oedipus	Durden, William and Polivka, Bryan	1999	WI Interest Vol 8 No 1
Remedial Budgeting for the Milwaukee Public Schools	Miller, James H.	1999	WI Interest Vol 8 No 1
How School Choice Almost Died in Milwaukee	Mitchell, Susan	1999	Report Vol 12 No 6
Homeschooling in Wisconsin: A Review of Current Issues and Trends	Luebke, Robert	1999	Report Vol 12 No 4
School to Work in Wisconsin: Inflated Claims, Meager Results	Schug, Mark C. and Western, D. Richard	1999	Report Vol 12 No 1
How We Won the Choice Case	Bolick, Clint	1998	WI Interest Vol 7 No 2
Beyond Smoke and Mirrors: A Critical Look at Smaller Class Sizes	Hruz, Thomas	1998	WI Interest Vol 7 No 2
Between Scylla and Charybdis: The Challenges Ahead for Parental School Choice in Wisconsin	McKinley, Daniel M.	1998	WI Interest Vol 7 No 2
Evading the Issue of Biased Environmental Education in Wisconsin	Sanera, Michael	1998	WI Interest Vol 7 No 1
Skills for the Future: Milwaukee's Workforce	Sheehy, Timothy	1997	WI Interest Vol 6 No 2
The Real Evidence: An Honest Research Update on School Choice Experiments	Fuller, Howard	1997	WI Interest Vol 6 No 2
Wisconsin's New Charter School Law: A Promising Opportunity for Further Education Reform in Milwaukee	Mitchell, Susan	1997	WI Interest Vol 6 No 2
Writing Wisconsin's Educational Standards: Little Room for Dissent	Vukmir, Leah	1997	WI Interest Vol 6 No 2
Why the Educators Are Wrong, and Mom and Dad Are Right: The Homeschooling Movement in Wisconsin	Luebke, Robert	1997	WI Interest Vol 6 No 1
Introducing Rigorous Standards into Wisconsin's Schools: The Virginia Model	Durden, William, and Vukmir, Leah	1997	Report Vol 10 No.1
The Educational Performance of Hmong Students in Wisconsin	Hutchison, Ray	1997	Report Vol 10 No 8
Deregulating Teacher Training In Wisconsin	Schug, Mark C. and Western, D. Richard	1997	Report Vol 10 No 4
The Academics of School-to-Work	Durden, William	1996	WI Interest Vol 5 No 1
Why Choice Supporters Can't Relax	Mitchell, Susan	1996	WI Interest Vol 5 No 1
How to Fix the Schools	Nemko, Martin	1996	WI Interest Vol 5 No 1
Reforming Public Education in Wisconsin: Moving from Bureaucracy to Accountability	Cibulka, James	1996	Report Vol 9 No 7
Environmental Education in Wisconsin: What the Textbooks Teach	Sanera, Michael	1996	Report Vol 9 No 5
The Value of Fringe Benefits and Tenure in Wisconsin Public versus Private	Cebula, Richard	1996	Report Vol 9 No 1
Sex Education in the Milwaukee Public Schools	Carson, Christopher S.	1995	WI Interest Vol 4 No 2
"Free Education Zones"	Freedman, Joe	1995	WI Interest Vol 4 No 2
Self-Esteem Mania	Sykes, Charles J.	1995	WI Interest Vol 4 No 1
School Resources (Do Not Equal) School Output	Wolfe, Barbara L.	1995	WI Interest Vol 4 No 1
Expanded School Choice: A Profile of Eligible Students and Schools	Fuller, Howard and White, Sammis B.	1995	Report Vol 8 No 5
A Betrayal of Teachers by Their Union	Fischer, Michael	1994	WI Interest Vol 3 No 2
No Rewards	Sykes, Charles J.	1994	WI Interest Vol 3 No 2
Sometimes So Simple, It's Sad	Hartmann, Michael E.	1994	WI Interest Vol 3 No 1
Why MPS Will Continue to Fail	Mitchell, Susan	1994	WI Interest Vol 3 No 1
The ABC's of OBE	Still, Thomas W.	1994	WI Interest Vol 3 No 1
Dual Education in the Madison Metropolitan School District	Korris, Steven J.	1994	Report Vol 7 No 2
Why MPS Doesn't Work: Barriers to Reform in the Milwaukee Public Schools	Mitchell, Susan	1994	Report Vol 7 No 1
Why I Quit Teaching	Fischer, Michael	1993	WI Interest Vol 2 No 2
Dumbing Down Our Kids	Sykes, Charles J.	1993	WI Interest Vol 2 No 2
Talent Derailed	Durden, William and Carol Mills	1993	WI Interest Vol 2 No 1
We (Still) Have A Dream	Holt, Mikel	1993	WI Interest Vol 2 No 1
Anatomy of a Boondoggle	Sykes, Charles J.	1993	WI Interest Vol 2 No 1
Educational Choice in Wisconsin: Public Funds for Private Schools Early Childhood through Post-Secondary	Mitchell, Susan	1993	Report Vol 6 No 4
Blaming the School	Andres, Morris	1992	WI Interest Vol 1 No 2
Smoke Screens	Quade, Quentin L.	1992	WI Interest Vol 1 No 2
Fuller's Chance	Sykes, Charles J.	1992	WI Interest Vol 1 No 1
The Milwaukee Parental Choice Program	Mitchell, George	1992	Report Vol 5 No 5
Restructuring Wisconsin's Educational System: How Effective is the Department of Public Instruction?	Cibulka, James	1991	Report Vol 4 No 4
Challenging Our Brightest Students: A Regional High School of Excellence	White, Sammis and Wagner, John	1991	Report Vol 4 No 3
Fiscal Accountability in Milwaukee's Public Elementary Schools: Where Does The Money Go?	Fischer, Michael	1990	Report Vol 3 No 4
Evaluating Wisconsin's Teachers: It Can Be Done	Bingham, Richard and Heywood, John	1989	Report Vol 2 No 9
An Evaluation of State-Financed School Integration in Metropolitan Milwaukee	Mitchell, George	1989	Report Vol 2 No 5
The Lack of Confidence in Public Education in Wisconsin	Black, Gordon S.	1989	Report Vol 2 No 4
Educational Choice: Answers to the Most Frequently Asked Questions About Mediocrity in American Education and What Can be Done About It	John E. Chubb Terry M. Moe	1989	Report Vol 2 No 3
Fiscal Accountability in Wisconsin's Public Elementary Schools	White, Sammis and Rue, Richard	1989	Report Vol 2 No 1
The Rising Costs of the "Chapter 220" Program in Wisconsin	Mitchell, George	1988	Report Vol 1 No 4