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Dwayne Olsen welcomes teacher Lucy Hawking from the Racine Unified School District. 

Chuck Wolbers welcomes Staff Sgt Christopher Gordon from the National Guard to discuss educational opportunities with the National Guard. 

Host Chuck Wolbers and Staff Sgt.Christopher Gordon discuss the educational opportunities afforded to members of the Wisconsin National Guard.

HEALTHY SCHOOLS: VACCINATIONS AND MORE: Hosted by Mike Kehoe.

Karin Sconzert welcomes Dr. Julie Mead; a professor in the Department of Educational Leadership & Policy Analysis from UW Madison. Mead discusses the recently approved education budget.

Mike Kehoe welcomes the Principal of Hillcrest School in Kenosha Eitan Benzaquen, Dan Tenuta, the Principal of Kenosha E-School, and Chris Shane from Professional Services Group.

Dwayne welcomes Alan Borsuk; Senior Fellow in Law and Public Policy at Marquette University. Alan served 37 years as a writer at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

Jessica Scheeler, Kenosha Job Corps Admissions Specialist stops in as Chuck Wolbers' guest on this weeks Education Matters. They discuss education programming as it supports the Job Corps training framework.

Karin Sconcert welcomes partners from the new children's literature website OmniLibros.com.

ARCHIVE: Sandy Jacoby interview with Jessie Klein. They discussed Klein's book: THE BULLY SOCIETY which chronicles the shocking Bullying Epidemic. Original Air Date: 6-9-12

Dwayne Olson welcomes Tim Tuttle who is currently teaching in Korea and Jullian Thomas from Jefferson Lighthouse School in Racine.

Mike Kehoe holds a timely conversation about teacher education and licensing with editorialist and retired teacher Scott Farnsworth, Carthage College professor(and  Education Matter's co-Host), Karin Sconzert, and Dr.

Summer at the Libraries" My guests will be the directors of the Racine Public Library, Kenosha Public Libraries, Kenosha County Community Libraries, Delvan Public Library, Lake Geneva Public Library and Elkhorn Public Libr

ARCHIVE: We revisit an episode from 2007 featuring high school students from RUSD and KUSD. The episode was hosted by the late Terry Lawler. Original Air Date: June 9th, 2007

Dwayne Olson welcomes Kathy Dunkerson, the Director of Community Engagement and Extended Learning at Racine Unified School District. 

Chuck Wolbers shares the steps of attending Gateway Technical College with Dr. Tammi Summers, Ken Riley, Sabrina Morgan-Hill and Angela Becerra-Chilicek

Mike Kehoe features the newest Kenosha Unified School District Board Member Mike Falkofske.

Karin Sconzert hosts this special Education Matters with guests who attended the highly prestigious American Educational Research Association annual meeting in Chicago in April 2015.

Dwayne Olson chats with Dirk Baldwin from the UW Parkside College of Business and Manoj Babu the Associate Dean of Business from Gateway Technical College about the new articulation agreement allowing students to transfer

Chuck Wolbers sits down with Virginia Bridges the Executive Director of Every Child's Place to talk about early childhood education.

Mike Kehoe speaks with students, teachers, parents and administrators about KUSD's Dual Language program.

Karin hosts the 2015 WGTD Education Matters Kenosha Unified School District School Board Candidates Forum with candidates Mike Falkofske and Tony Garcia and Incumbents seeking re-election Mary Synder and Tamara Coleman.

Dwayne Olson sits down with Dr. Eric Guillen, the Chief of Schools for Racine Unified School District, and Jeff Neubauer.

Chuck Wolbers features Steve Knecht, the Athletic Director for KUSD. They discuss the upcoming KUSD Athletic Facilities Referendum.

Mike Kehoe speaks with Anne Knapp, President of the Kenosha Education Association, and former teacher and current editor of the KEA newsletter, Scott Farnsworth.

Karin discusses the Frank Neighborhood Project with Heather Connolly, Principal of Frank Elementary; Cindy Altergott, Administrator for the YMCA; and Pastor William Harris, Director of the Frank Neighborhood Project.

Dwayne Olson talks about the financial issues facing the Racine Unified School District with David Hazen, Chief Operations Officer for RUSD.

Dwayne Olson speaks with Nat Coffman, Head of School for The Prairie School in Racine.

Chuck Wolbers talks with the Boys and Girls Club about their services.

Mike Kehoe turns over the reigns to Education Matters to special guest host Courtney Zapp, a Carthage student who is studying in Journalism.

Karin chats about services and programs for adult learners offered by the literacy councils of Racine, Kenosha, and Walworth counties.

John Nickelson talks with Washington Park High School directing principal Dennis Christensen

Dwayne Olson speaks with members from the Christ Lutheran Academy in Kenosha about private Parochial Education.

Chuck Wolbers talks with Stephanie Kubarth from the Midwest Therapeutic Riding Program in Paris, Wisconsin about equine facilitated learning (Learning through the use of a horse).

Mike Kehoe speaks with the interim Executive Director of the Kenosha Education Association Steve Urso.

John Nickelson is joined by Greg Mayer, an associate professor at UW Parkside

John Nickelsen is joined by Scott Miatech, a dual language instructor from Mitchell Elementary School.

Karin discusses the Schools of Hope mentoring program with a panel of experts.

Chuck Wolbers talks with Allen Bollier about specific disabilities.

Dwayne Olson chats with Dr. Todd Allen Price; Director of Policy Studies at National Louis University

Dwayne Olson welcomes Superintendent of The Racine Unified School District Dr. Lolli Haws

New host Karin Sconzert discuses language learning. Karin is a Professor of Education at Carthage.

Dwayne Olson Hosts. Panel talks about Racine Focus Community against alcohol and drugs.

Repeat of last week's episode.

Education Matters Hosted By John Nickelson.

Dwayne's guest is Alyson Eisch, Principal at Julian Thomas School in Racine and award winner from Wingspread related to her work dealing with mental health issues in schools.

Steve Brown's guest are: Howard Pitler from the Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning (McREL), located in Denver.

Three segments for "Education Matters" today: Steve Brown's guests are: 1) Dr. Sue Savaglio-Jarvis, newly named Superintendent of Schools for KUSD; 2) Dr.

John Nickelsen is today's host and his guests are from Racine Unified talking about the Educator Effective System of Evaluation.

Dwayne's guests will talk about the Racine Sister Cities Program.