As one of the best communities for music education, UCC heralded for support music education The NAMM Foundation recognizes the United Community Center (UCC) for its outstanding commitment to music education with a Best Communities for Music Education designation. UCC joins 307 districts across the country to receive the prestigious distinction this year. UCC operates [...]

Travis Vocational High School completed its second year of the Vocational Food Service Program. Under the direction of Culinary Arts Instructor Mr. Eric Allen, 20 students gained a tremendous amount of knowledge about the various aspects of the food service industry. This is one of the several strands in their vocational model that helps prepare [...]

School awarded Project Lead the Way Gateway to Technology National Recognition Milwaukee Public Schools’ Frederick J. Gaenslen School is gaining national recognition for its Project Lead the Way (PLTW) pre-engineering program. Gaenslen won PLTW’s Gateway to Technology National Recognition for its commitment to the rigorous program, which connects math and science curriculum to hands-on engineering [...]

180 Days: A Year Inside An American High School airs on Monday and Tuesday, March 25 and 26, at 9:00 p.m. An important film on the nation’s educational crisis premieres on PBS this month. The documentary, 180 Days: A Year Inside An American High School, takes an unprecedented look at a learning institution at the [...]

Teams of high school aged young people will be offered the chance to show off their knowledge of Black History at the 5th Annual Black Knowledge Bowl. The annual event will be held Friday, March 15 from 8am to 2pm at the Manpower Group headquarters at 100 Manpower Place in Downtown Milwaukee. 22 teams of [...]

Daniel Monge, a senior in physics, used a University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) “boot camp” as an opportunity to fine-tune a personal statement and work on leadership skills. Eric Vang, a senior in biology, saw it as a chance to network and start planning ahead for research opportunities. Monge, Vang and [...]

District offers city’s greatest variety of high-quality schools – and programs exclusive to MPS Milwaukee Public Schools – which offers the city’s greatest variety of high-quality schools and a number of programs parents won’t find anywhere else in the city – is debuting School Selections, its new online schools catalog. The announcement comes as the [...]

By Vincent Lyles, President & CEO of Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Milwaukee Partnerships always have the potential to make history when like-minded individuals or groups come together to address an issue, solve a problem or create something new and exciting. Most of all, partnerships have the potential to create great outcomes that can [...]

Black History & Liberation Month at UWM offers a look into the present lives, rich history and diverse perspectives of African Americans and the African Diaspora. Events are free and open to the public, unless indicated. For more information, contact Union Sociocultural Programming, 414-229-3894, sociocul@uwm.edu. Monday, Feb. 11: “FAIS DANSER LA POUSSIÈRE (DANCING FOREVER).” Based [...]

By Michael R. Lovell Chancellor UWM Graduation days at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee are big deals, and our commencement on Dec. 16, 2012, was no exception. More than 2,200 students were eligible to participate in our ceremony. Combine those individuals with those who graduated earlier in 2012, and there were more than 5,400 students who [...]