"Her Deepness", Sylvia Earle gave a fascinating speech this evening as part of the UW-Madison's distinguished lecture series. Daily Cardinal article.
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1990 UW Grad & Washington Post foreign correspondent Anthony Shadid won a Pulitzer for international reporting for his coverage of the Iraq war and its uncertain aftermath.
Dane County's election results, including the municipal judge and school board races will be posted here.
Alan Borsuk writes about the demise of Milwaukee Public Schools 8-T program, an initiative "aimed at dealing with a problem that perplexes urban school districts across the United States: what to do with the large number of eighth-graders who are not really ready for high school".
Extensive research indicates that neither holding students back a grade nor promoting them unprepared fosters achievement," the North Central Regional Educational Laboratory said in a report summarizing the issue.So what do you do with such students?
In 1997, the Milwaukee School Board voted to require students to meet a set of proficiency standards before they graduate from middle school in an effort to deal with a "social promotion" problem that made ninth grade, in the words of one MPS administrator, "a parking lot" for hundreds of kids who were doing poorly.
