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The School of Education’s participation in the Milwaukee Partnership Academy (MPA) has strengthened its links in the community and gained national recognition. The MPA is a coalition of education, labor, business, university and community groups whose purpose is to enhance the quality of teach...

Improving the teaching and learning of mathematics for Milwaukee Public Schools' (MPS) 100,000 students takes the effort and collaboration of many players. But with the help of a $20 million 5-year grant from the National Science Foundation, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM), MPS and Milwa...

Students at Cass Street School saw a dramatic increase in their reading levels thanks to nearly 100 volunteers who participated in a first-time UWM tutoring program at the school. Fifty at-risk students received one-on-one tutoring last spring as part of a program facilitated by UWM's Partnerships f...

What do Bill Gates, the US government, the Carnegie Corporation and the Herzfeld family have in common? They don’t believe in the adage of “if you want something done right then do it yourself.” In fact, they believe quite the opposite and all are contributing to making education i...