Community Schools: An Equity Strategy for School Success Gavin Luter n Session 3 Target n Audience: Education Support Professionals, Aspiring Educators, Teachers, Community School Coordinators, Community Schools Program Support n n The Community Schools model …
Year: 2019
Wyoming's "low-road capitalism"
Westmoreland Coal Company’s spokesman said it wasn’t the company’s fault that those who spent their working lives mining coal for the company find themselves old and with neither pensions nor health insurance. He blames capitalism. …
Midwest racial gaps grow – COWS Report in Wisconsin Examiner
New study maps how and why life is worse for African Americans in a dozen states, including Wisconsin. Midwest racial gaps grow
New Race in the Heartland Report Highlights Wisconsins Extreme Racial Disparity
‘Race in the Heartland,” written by Colin Gordon, is a joint project of Policy Matters Ohio, Iowa Policy Project, EARN and COWS, a nonprofit think-and-do tank, based at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, which promotes “high-road” solutions …
COWS report highlights racial disparities in employment, education
COWS report highlights racial disparities in employment, education. COWS report highlights racial disparities in employment, education
New Report Shows Extreme Racial Disparities In Wisconsin, Midwest
African Americans lag behind white Americans in employment and educational outcomes nationally, but University of Iowa Professor Colin Gordon’s Race in the Heartland report argues that the gap between white and black Midwesterners is among the worst in …
Celebrating the Work of Erik Olin Wright
This two-day conference will examine each of these projects separately and together. One of the abiding paradoxes of Wright’s work is the gap between the two projects: the first focuses on class without utopia, while …
Mechanisms for Building Partnerships between Cities & Universities: The EPIC-N Model
Connecting cities to universities can be a complicated task. This roundtable with Joel Rogers will discuss one model of easily connecting universities and cities: a proven fixed-time partnership that links city-defined issues with courses at …
Building the High-Road in Wisconsin: The UniverCity Alliance & UniverCity Year program
High-road policy and governance promotes shared prosperity, environmental sustainability, and efficient democratic government. Building high-road cities, metropolitan regions, and states is both good for citizens and a key way to move the national dialogue toward …
COWS report claims state tax policy contributing to inequality – SOWW 2019
A new report from UW-Madison’s COWS claims the state’s tax policy is contributing to inequality, as the richest Wisconsinites pay a smaller share of their income in taxes than poorer residents. COWS report claims …