Jed Hopkins, Professor of the School of Education at Edgewood College joins Tony Castaneda to talk about the upcoming listening session to be held on Monday, February 16th from 6-9pm at Edgewood College.
Sondy Pope Blasts GOP Education Bill
The new Wisconsin legislative session is upon us. Representative Sondy Pope joins the Monday Buzz to talk about the first bill in that session, AB-1, the so-called “Education Accountability Bill.”
School District Report Cards Are In!
Schools measure everything about students these days, providing quantitative measures of student’s performance against multiple state and national benchmarks. Last year, the state Department of Public Instruction expanded that trend to include grades for schools, and this year, for the first time, they’re issuing report cards for entire school districts. So how did your district […]
Common Core Under Fire
The Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism is a nonpartisan nonprofit organization has the motto “Protect the vulnerable. Expose wrongdoing. Seek solutions to problems.” Each month, we check in with the Center for Investigative Journalism for the latest happening in the state. Reporter Nora Hertel joined host Brian Standing to talk about Wisconsin’s public education Common […]
The First Day of School
Today, Tuesday September 3, was the first day back to school in Madison. Host Carousel Bayrd and her guests Jennifer Cheatham, Madison Superintendent, and Marjorie Passman, school board member, celebrated this day with a discussion of the education system in the Madison area.