4th Street Forum
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC, THURSDAYS, NOON
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AN IDEAL EDUCATION Everybody agrees that we need successful schools.
But are schools focused on what children need to learn?
Searching for the essentials of learning with kids as the highest priority.
Forum Date: September 15, NOON MPTV Channel 10.1 Sunday, September 18, 9AM
Due to MPTV Pledge there will be no broadcast Friday night.
MPTV Show Number 1001: Click or copy and paste - http://www.mptv.org/video/watch/?id=908
With Host DENISE CALLAWAY
Business and Community Partnerships Coordinator
Milwaukee Public Schools www.milwaukee.k12.wi.us
With Guests ALAN BORSUK
Education Columnist
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Senior Fellow in Law and Public Policy
Marquette University Law School
VERONICA MANCHENO
Civics Teacher
Centro Hispano High School
Education Program of the Council for the Spanish Speaking
Alternative Partnership Milwaukee Public School
DESIREE POINTER-MACE, PhD
Associate Dean and Assistant Professor
Department of Education
Alverno College
ANNIE WOODWARD
Milwaukee Board of School Director
District 4
Milwaukee Public Schools
Wisconsin Education – Triage Time? Wisconsin’s education budget has been cut dramatically.
Will the changes force educational triage?
What essential programs must be abandoned?
Above all, what does it all mean for Wisconsin kids?
Forum Date: September 22, NOON MPTV Channel 10.1 Friday, September 23, 10PM &
Sunday, September 25, 9AM
MPTV Show Number 1002: Click or copy and paste - http://www.mptv.org/video/watch/?id=911
With Host ENRIQUE FIGUEROA, PhD
Director
Roberto Hernández Center
UW-Milwaukee www.uwm.edu
With Guests ANNELIESE DICKMAN, JD
Research Director
Co-author, "Public Schooling in Southeast Wisconsin, 2010-2011"
Public Policy Forum
TODD GRAY
Superintendent
Waukesha School District
MEAGAN HOLMAN
School Board Director
Milwaukee Public Schools
GARY WILLIAMS, EdD
Clinical Assistant Professor
Department of Educational Policy and Community Studies
Director, Institute for Intercultural Research
UW-Milwaukee
President of the Brown Deer School Board
COLLEGE QUEST – TRADITIONAL OR FOR-PROFIT? Colleges that are for-profit businesses enroll almost two million people nationwide.
Do they capably fill a void in higher education?
Do they threaten traditional colleges?
Or does their profit focus trump quality and accountability?
Forum Date: September 29, 2011, NOON MPTV Channel 10.1 Friday, September 30, 10PM &
Sunday, October 2, 9AM
MPTV Show Number 1003: Click or copy and paste - http://www.mptv.org/video/watch/?id=913
With Host Raul Vasquez
4th Street Forum Host
With Guests STEVE BIALEK, PhD
Chair, Rader School of Business
Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE)
Peer Reviewer, Higher Learning Commission
of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools
NICK DILLON
Adult Education Teacher and Life Coach
Former Associate Dean, ITT Technical Institute
RENEE HERZING
President
Herzing Educational System
MICHAEL ROSEN, PhD
Economics Instructor
Milwaukee Area Technical College
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