by Jane Elder | Oct 11, 2018 | Magazine Article
I was born into a family where the value of education was never questioned. My mother told stories of how her Swedish-speaking father taught her to read using a matchstick to point out each word as he read it aloud. While my grandmother clung to the old country, my...
by Michael Johnson | Apr 10, 2018 | Videos
The final talk in our American Dream in Wisconsin series features Michael Johnson sharing reflections on how Boys & Girls Clubs can help young people and their families achieve the American Dream. Johnson discusses how gains in school graduation and retention...
by Tony Evers, Deborah Gilpin, Ruth Maegli | Feb 28, 2017 | Videos
How are we cultivating creativity in the next generation? Watch the Wisconsin Academy-hosted discussion with three leaders in Wisconsin’s early childhood and K-12 education fields: Tony Evers, State Superintendent of Public Instruction Deborah Gilpin,...
by Jason Smith | Aug 1, 2016 | Magazine Article
For those in Central Wisconsin who crave more of the Wisconsin Academy’s free public talks with leading Wisconsin thinkers and share knowledge, you have a valuable resource in the Winchester Academy. Neil Truman Eckstein, a Professor of English at the University of...
by Jason Smith | Apr 1, 2015 | Magazine Article
When Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker put forth his budget for the 2015–17 biennium, it arrived with some dramatic changes to the mission of the University of Wisconsin System. Particularly conspicuous were deletions to language central to the Wisconsin Idea, the...
