{"id":30519,"date":"2023-09-07T07:53:40","date_gmt":"2023-09-07T12:53:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/?p=30519"},"modified":"2023-09-07T08:00:20","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T13:00:20","slug":"why-report-on-k-12-education-in-wisconsin-listen-to-alan-borsuk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/2023\/09\/why-report-on-k-12-education-in-wisconsin-listen-to-alan-borsuk\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Report on K\u201312 Education in Wisconsin? Listen to Alan Borsuk."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"AlanAlan J. Borsuk has been the Law School\u2019s senior fellow in law and public policy since fall 2009\u2014call it 14 years. So, for a not wholly impertinent point, he has some time to go before replicating his 37 preceding years as a reporter and editor at the Milwaukee Journal<\/em> and Milwaukee Journal Sentinel<\/em>. In any event, during his time with us, he has kept his hand in the newspaper with the occasional\u2014nay, frequent\u2014column on K\u201312 education policy and practice in this region. Why?<\/p>\n

Borsuk\u2019s recent piece in The Grade, <\/em>a nationwide online platform focused on journalism about education, will tell you. Here\u2019s a flavor (the introduction):<\/p>\n

I crossed paths with a former member of the Milwaukee school board a while ago.<\/em><\/p>\n

He had moved on from the school scene, but I was still writing about K-12 education, as I had across more than 50 years.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cDo you feel like you\u2019re living \u2018Groundhog Day\u2019?\u201d he asked me, referring to the movie in which the protagonist repeats the same day over and over. <\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cYes. All the time,\u201d I told him.<\/em><\/p>\n

At that time, I often felt like I was writing pieces I\u2019d written so many times before.<\/em><\/p>\n

But I was still doing it.<\/em><\/p>\n

Why? Because damn it, it\u2019s important. <\/em><\/p>\n

That\u2019s why I\u2019m still at it all these years later \u2014 and why I decided to make what might be my last big project as a journalist a multipart series on longstanding problems in how most schools teach kids to read.<\/em><\/p>\n

Education coverage should be energetic and powerful. I hope that showed in the recent pieces I wrote about literacy. But I also know there is more I could and should do.<\/em><\/p>\n

There is more all of us in education journalism could and should do.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As with Borsuk\u2019s work more generally, the whole thing is well worth a read. Find it here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alan J. Borsuk has been the Law School\u2019s senior fellow in law and public policy since fall 2009\u2014call it 14 years. So, for a not wholly impertinent point, he has some time to go before replicating his 37 preceding years as a reporter and editor at the Milwaukee Journal and Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. 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