Opportunity to learn campaign comes to Wisconsin

State Superintendent Tony Evers meets with John Jackson of the Schott Foundation, recently, in Milwaukee.

May 18, 2011, Dr. John Jackson brought the Schott Foundation’s opportunity-to-learn campaign to Wisconsin.

He said it is time to move our focus from the achievement gap to the gap between promises and opportunities that face students in this state and all over the country.

Jackson talked about the state and federal government’s failure to ensure all students the resources crucial for learning and academic achievement.

President Obama set a goal of ensuring over 60% of American young people complete two years of post-high school education. Currently about 39% of adults have achieved that goal. In order to raise this number to 60%, it is vital that communities’ provide four crucial opportunities-to-learn:

• Highly effective teachers
• Quality early childhood education
• Challenging coursework
• Equitable instructional resources.

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