In the 1930s, ?40s and ?50s, the Wisconsin School of the Air brought the best instruction and instructors available anywhere in the world into the classrooms of rural schools. At its peak, the collaboration with the University of Wisconsin brought the Wisconsin School of the Air into high schools and even colleges. By the miracle of radio, parents and families at home listened along with their children at school to programs in science, art, math and music. The Wisconsin State Journal editorial board?s agenda should include this resurrection of the “Wisconsin Idea.”
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