By: Shannon Whitworth
The state of our schools today, in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, has a lot of people concerned. With kids out of school for so long, it is no wonder that proficiency rates in key academic areas are declining. In fact, a study out earlier this month from the ...
Study finds academic performance drops in math and English for schools that started 2020-21 school year closed.
The News: A new study from the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty (WILL) finds that Wisconsin schools that closed for in-person learning to start the 2020-21 school year saw ...
Will Flanders and Libby Sobic
In the latest chapter of the seemingly never-ending nightmare of school closures, Milwaukee Public Schools decided Sunday, Jan. 2 to return to virtual instruction for the first week of the spring semester, Jan. 3-7. This follows the Madison Metropolitan School ...
New WILL policy brief offers three ways to immediately improve the report card
The News: The recent release of Wisconsin’s state report cards for individual districts and schools proved, once again, that the current composition of the report card is not doing enough to reveal the true state of ...
Will Flanders, Research Director
Wisconsin’s recently released state report cards for the 2020-21 school year paint a relatively rosy picture: 399 (out of 422) districts “Met”, “Exceeded”, or “Greatly Exceeded” expectations according to the data. But these report cards seem to be whistling ...