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Fall 2008 test scores showed the percentage of Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS) students rated as proficient or better in mathematics increased on average by 5 percentage points across all grades tested, with students in grades four and eight making remarkable increases of 9 and 10 points. Strong evid...

A $20 million National Science Foundation (NSF) grant is changing mathematics education in Milwaukee Public Schools. UWM administers the grant for the Milwaukee Mathematics Partnership (MMP), an initiative of the Milwaukee Partnership Academy. The NSF grant encompasses numerous goals; however, impro...

UWM and Milwaukee Public Schools are working closely together in a program designed to improve the links between the theory and practice of teaching. Teachers-in-Residence are one example of boundary spanners . . . people within the schools and universities who help bridge gaps in understanding betw...

The Milwaukee Mathematics Partnership (MMP) is multiplying the power of teachers to make mathematics add up for students. The partnership focuses on helping teachers improve students' mathematics achievement in Milwaukee Public Schools. Appeared in UW-Milwaukee, School of Education Annual Report 200...

Keeping politics out of education reform isn’t easy, but a Milwaukee partnership that includes UWM has been largely successful in doing that. The Milwaukee Partnership Academy (MPA), which has won national awards and recognition for its efforts, has been working to help children in Milwaukee P...

By ALAN J. BORSUK Posted: Sept. 21, 2005 Reg Weaver, the president of the National Education Association, had a message Wednesday for students and teachers at Twenty-First Street Elementary School in the heart of Milwaukee's central city. And, being not only the most prominent teachers union lead...

By ALAN J. BORSUK Posted: June 20, 2005 The nation's largest teachers union and a partner organization on Monday announced a $500,000 grant to support efforts in Milwaukee to close achievement gaps between racial minority students and white students and between low-income students and others. The ...

Corliss D. Wood, administrator of UWM’s Partnerships for Education, has a local take on the Ethiopian proverb, It takes a whole village to raise a child. “I say that it takes a whole community to raise students in Milwaukee public schools. It comes back to yourself — what role or ...

As communities try to solve tough education issues, many are turning to partnerships between the public schools, business and industry, teacher unions and higher education institutions that prepare teachers. And they are benchmarking the success of the Milwaukee Partnership Academy (MPA) even as the...

A strong mathematics program is a vital part of any curriculum and now Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS) will have more resources to make sure their students improve in math. This past fall, the National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded $20 million over five years to the University of Wisconsin-Milwauk...