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Blewett serves as President of the Milwaukee Public Schools Board of Directors and on the Board of the Council of Great City Schools. He also serves on the National School Board Association's Pre-K Education Committee, the Wisconsin Association of School Boards' Policy and Resolutions Committee, and the Wisconsin Task Force of Arts and Creativity in Education. Blewett chairs the Milwaukee Public Schools Board Advisory Committee on Arts Education, and he serves as an advisory member on the Arts at Large Board, a local arts education board.
Blewett believes that our current educational policy has the unfortunate effect of inhibiting brain development in our children, and he therefore calls for a new national education agenda that focuses on collaborative problem solving, creative thinking, and citizenship skills.
Every child should be learning at least two languages at every level and have full participation in the music, visual, dance, theater, design, and language arts. Every school district that requires children to recite the pledge of allegiance should offer those same children the opportunity to vote in every general election, using sample ballots from the election board. We must invest in the kind of education that will give our children a chance to compete in a challenging and complex global economy.
We need to stop the rapid devolution of our great nation into a third world country, but, by investing in education, remold our position as world leaders in ways that will make our children proud.
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Saturday, September 20, 2008
Standing by our Record The new leaders of Milwaukee Public Schools defend their legislative record, which has been ignored in local newspaper attacks on the public school district.
Saturday, September 20, 2008Standing by our Record The new leaders of Milwaukee Public Schools defend their legislative record, which has been ignored in local newspaper attacks on the public school district.
