Category: Education
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Wisconsin Education Fair at St. Norbert College
The annual Wisconsin Education Fair (WEF) will be held at St. Norbert College in the Schuldes Sports Center from 6:30 – 8:30 pm on Sept. 16 and 9 – 11 am on Sept. 17. More than 100 colleges, universities, technical schools and military groups will be on hand to meet and recruit prospective students and […]
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The Tile Murals of Door County Schools
When I visit Gibraltar School and walk along the hallway past the old gym, I look on the bottom row of the “Visions of Peace” tile mural created by elementary students in 1997 to find mine, one that I made after teaching Kurt Vonnegut’s antiwar novel, Slaughterhouse-Five. My sense of pride is no different than […]
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Agriscience Teacher Jeanna James Achieves National Recognition
Theoretically speaking, Jeanna James is not only the best young agriscience teacher in Wisconsin, but also one of the top six in the United States. However, anyone who watches her working with students might well maintain that the designation is not theoretical. “Jeanna is a model teacher and keeps every student at the center of […]
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Leading by Example: The Fight of Bo Johnson
In this year’s Philanthropy Issue we bring you the stories of seven people inspiring others in our community. We start with one who is with us only in spirit, but what a spirit he is. There were times during his chemotherapy treatments that Bo Johnson didn’t understand why he was going through such a painful […]
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Southern Door School’s Learning Garden
It isn’t a Victory Garden straight out of World War II. It won’t feed hundreds of people. Southern Door’s Schoolyard Garden will, however, teach students about plants and cultivate a bond in the community.
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Finding Life Lessons in Old Photographs
I came across the photo at the bottom of an old cardboard Leinenkugel’s box, a remarkably sturdy box that has held most of my photos as I bounced from apartment to apartment for the last 13 years.
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Learning by Looking Beyond Our Borders
We in Door County like to think we’re unique. It’s a pride that goes beyond our environment and people – we think our problems are one-of-a-kind too. Perhaps it’s a natural reflection of our isolated geography that we think we’re operating on an island.
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As much as I love living in Door County and writing about the people here and the problems we face, I can’t help but have this heavy sense that what we all love about this place is slipping away.
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Small towns will have to re-imagine education and break down the walls between bureaucracies if they hope to re-vitalize their communities in today’s economy.
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Brain Drain Author Speaking at Stone Harbor April 28
Patrick Carr, co-author of Hollowing Out the Middle: The Rural Brain Drain and What it Means for America, will be the keynote speaker at the Door County Economic Development Corporation’s annual luncheon.
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Readers Weigh In On Door County’s Brain Drain
In January the Pulse began a series, Door County’s Brain Drain, devoted to the peninsula’s dwindling population of young adults. We’re looking into why they’re leaving, but more importantly, what might attract them back.
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700 Number of rural counties that lost 10 percent or more of their population since 1980 60 Million, the number of Americans who live in small towns, or one in five 5 Percent of Americans who possessed a college education in 1940 51 Percent of women age 18 – 24 who had entered or completed […]
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Re-thinking Education: Focus on University Students Comes at Expense of Everyone Else
Every child deserves a chance at a college education, but does every child need one? It’s not a popular question to ask in policy circles, but it’s one that one author argues must be asked if we’re going to keep America’s small towns alive.
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Coming Home: What Brought One Young Person Back to Door County
Over Christmas break hundreds of Door County high school graduates came home to visit family and friends. For most of them, such short stops will be their only relationship with their hometowns for decades to come.
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As much as I love living in Door County and writing about the people here and the problems we face, I can’t help but have this heavy sense that what we all love about this place is slipping away. Men
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The Small School Experience in Northern Door: Bigger Isn’t Always Better
The rural school experience is an important part of Americana, the belief that the one-room school in many respects was best. But advocates of a large-school education will point to broader academic curricula, expanded extracurricular choices, better educational facilities, and options for exceptional students to achieve at higher levels. People living in northern Door County, […]
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Strengthening Security One Backpack at a Time: Door County man soldiers on in Afganistan
It’s been more than seven years since the United States launched Operation Enduring Freedom and invaded Afghanistan in response to the terrorist attacks of Sept.
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An Unlikely Hero: Gibraltar’s Iva Grasse
On the social networking website Facebook, 196 graduates of the Gibraltar Public Schools have formed a fan club for a hero they all share, a person the website calls “the coolest person in the world.” In a forum where other Wisconsinites are creating fan pages for Jacob Leinenkugel or Brett Favre, these young people are […]