K12 EDUCATION

Title	Author	Year	Publication
Preparing Effective Teachers for the Milwaukee Public Schools How Good a Job Do Wisconsin Schools of Education Do?	Mark C. Schug Scott Niederjohn	2008	Report Vol 21 No 1
Fixing the Milwaukee Public Schools The Limits of Parent-Driven Reform	David Dodenhoff	2007	Report Vol 20 No 8
The Achievment Gap in Milwaukee Public Schools Outcomes by Gender Race and Income Level	Sammis White	2007	Report Vol 20 No 6
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