In April 2008, the Wisconsin Erie School District attempted and failed to pass a school bond referendum to renovate its high school. In November 2008, again the school district did not pass a referendum. Interestingly, in the 2009-2010 school year, the district was successful in passing a bond referendum. Although the original bond measure called…

Survey responses and interviews of 246 (of 437) subscribers to 3 agricultural newspapers determined that supplements were a cost-effective way to reach farmers with extension information. A majority of 55 extension agents surveyed approved of supplements, but 29% opposed distributing them through extension if they contained ads; 56% approved if…

Opponents of school choice argue that private schools are not "accountable" because they are not subject to detailed oversight by a regulatory bureaucracy. They claim private school employees can be expected to engage in abusive and criminal behavior more frequently. School choice supporters respond that parents hold private schools…

Since the 1930s, high school students in Pulaski, Wisconsin have been producing the town's only newspaper. In addition to providing the community with a source of news, the paper involves students in an educational experience that they would otherwise only be able to receive at a "regular" newspaper. (Author/GC)

A study was undertaken to describe the financial affairs of 49 Wisconsin newspapers enumerated in the 1860 United States Census of Products of Industry schedules. Specific information was sought concerning the cost of establishing a newspaper, the cost of materials and supplies, the number of employees and their pay, the value of the newspaper and…

The fourth in a series of nine proposed reports on the evaluation of Wisconsin's County and District Fairs, this report has three objectives: (1) to study the relationship among various factors associated with fair and grandstand attendance, the number of exhibitors, and the amount of state aid fairs receive, as well as the amount they pay out in…

Conference proceedings on the Native American Press in Wisconsin and the Nation present speeches and presentations pertaining to current American Indian publications and examples of analysis and synthesis created by Indian scholars. Topics of speeches presented include: an interpretive framework for Native American discourse; the early years of…

Identifies factors that might have influenced individual newspapers' coverage of the suffrage movement, including the personal positions of publishers and editors, political affiliations, the demographic characteristics of the readership area, circulation size, place of publication, and sources of the stories. Finds that these examples of the…

Effective educational and management programs to improve water quality will require an improved understanding of public perceptions of the relationship between land use and water quality. We analyzed a large database of newspaper articles in the Upper Mississippi River Basin to assess the public discourse about water quality and land use, and…

In their roles as writers, editors, and photographers for community newspapers, women helped to record the economic, social, and political fluctuations that comprise the past. In villages and towns, however, the boundaries of and limits on acceptable female activity were as strong as they were in the cities. Women in community newspapers may have…

The focus of this paper is on three questions: Who are the professional women on newspaper staffs? How do they feel about their jobs? What are their job expectations? Questionnaires were sent to each of Wisconsin's 35 daily newspaper editors (all men), a brief form for the editor and a longer form for each woman on his news-editorial staff.…

The increase in the number of newspapers in Wisconsin's largest cities from 1840 to 1860 was analyzed to determine whether the coming of the telegraph (1848-1850) spurred newspaper growth significantly. Multiple regression analysis was used to control for the effects of population growth and price-level fluctuations. Even after accounting for the…

To determine what the public of District One of the Wisconsin Board Of Vocational, Technical, and Adult Education (VTAE) knows and understands about its career education opportunities and how this information was acquired, a representative sample of the 221,000 persons (including adults as well as students in Grades 8 and 12) were surveyed…

THE STUDY WAS SET UP IN 1963 CHIEFLY TO IDENTIFY THE FUNCTIONS OF VARIOUS MASS MEDIA AND THEIR RELATIVE IMPORTANCE TO THE AUDIENCE (A SAMPLE OF WISCONSIN FARM WOMEN). THE FARM WOMEN WERE IN CONTACT WITH MASS MEDIA AN AVERAGE OF SIX OR SEVEN HOURS DAILY. BASED ON EARLIER DATA (1957) IT APPEARED THAT THE PROPORTION OF HOMES WITH TELEVISION, WOMEN'S…