Schools are not the superspreader sites that many feared, but research indicates U.S. students fell behind in math during the pandemic
Failure at the Faucet
Wisconsin schools, day care centers slated for lead service line removal under new DNR program
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Eighteen communities in Wisconsin, including Milwaukee, plan to replace lead lines leading to schools and day care centers. View the areas of the state where the work is planned.
Children Left Behind
Early environment can change your brain
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Studies show poverty damages the brains of very poor children. Early interventions and raising the standard of living of poor families could help close Wisconsin’s worst-in-the-nation achievement gap.
Children Left Behind
Affordable rent, stable housing help some residents succeed
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Stable housing plays a key role in ensuring academic success.
Children Left Behind
Apartment learning centers seek to shrink achievement gap for children and adults
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Community learning centers in Madison and Milwaukee offer a promising method of shrinking academic achievement gaps.
Children Left Behind
Wisconsin’s black-white achievement gap worst in nation despite decades of efforts
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Students like Demitrius Kigeya thrive in Wisconsin despite the worst black-white achievement gap in the nation. The state ranks the worst in the nation for the difference between how well black and white students perform, the likelihood that black students will be suspended from school and the difference between black and white student graduation rates.
Children Left Behind
How to investigate achievement gaps in your local schools
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Investigate achievement gaps in your local schools to seek solutions.
Children Left Behind
Critics say Wisconsin going backward on achievement gap
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In the past year, the Republican-run state Legislature, with the blessing of Gov. Scott Walker, eliminated the state’s race-based integration program and made changes to a class-size reduction program in moves that critics charge will harm the state’s ability to close the achievement gap.
Children Left Behind
Local solutions integral to closing gaps, top education official says
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Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism reporter Abigail Becker sat down in October with state Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Evers, Department of Public Instruction spokesman Tom McCarthy and the agency’s Director of Education Information Services John Johnson.
2015-2017 Wisconsin Budget
Board overseeing Wisconsin’s for-profit schools fights for its life
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With the Wisconsin Educational Approval Board on the chopping block in Gov. Scott Walker’s budget, EAB Executive Secretary David Dies fears the for-profit schools it oversees will ramp up practices that could harm students.
Animal Research
On the death of my monkey
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The sign on his incubator said: “Born today, rejected by mother, male infant.” He was swaddled in a blue blanket. At first I thought he was dead; then he opened his tiny eyes. I may have been the first person he saw.
student financial aid
Drug crime penalties are ‘huge’ for students
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For many, experimenting with drugs is part of college. But, the penalties of getting caught may be more severe than at any other time in their lives.
confidential informants
Undercover students used in drug busts at some University of Wisconsin campuses
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Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism checks at the UW System’s 13 four-year campuses turned up three sites at which officials acknowledge using students arrested for drug activities to make controlled buys. Opponents say this practice could place students in dangerous situations and exploits their vulnerability to losing thousands of dollars of federal financial aid and tuition by being suspended from school. But supporters say it provides an opportunity for students to avoid felonies.