Students may learn more in mixed-gender groups than when they work solely with members of their own gender, a study released by a group of researchers with UW-Madison’s Wisconsin Center for Education Research indicates. The study was led by UW-Madison’s Sadhana Puntambekar, who is a professor with the School of Education’s Department of Educational Psychology. Preliminary results of …
The 2014 International Colloquium on Black Males in Education, a research gathering set to explore the global dynamics of black males in the educational pipeline, runs Oct. 1-4 at Morehouse College in Atlanta. The event’s lead organizer is Wisconsin’s Equity and Inclusion Laboratory (Wei LAB), an education research laboratory based out of the Wisconsin Center for Education Research …
It’s not even 7 a.m. and 30 women, several of whom are 70-and-older, are already working up a good sweat inside Gym 2 of the UW-Madison Natatorium. Wearing a headset and wireless microphone, class instructor Bonnie Loughran demonstrates and talks the women through their workout while the Eagles’ “Take it to the Limit (One More Time)” …
Herbert J. Klausmeier, a UW-Madison professor emeritus of educational psychology who played the leading role in founding the Wisconsin Center for Education Research, passed away on May 20 at the age of 98. After earning a Doctor of Education degree from Stanford University in 1949, Klausmeier started his academic career at the University of Northern Colorado in 1949 …
UW-Madison alumna Kristin Grant recently received a 2014 Kennedy Center/Stephen Sondheim Inspirational Teacher Award. These honors are designed to “publicly recognize specific teachers by spotlighting their extraordinary impact on the lives of students. The Awards celebrate the teaching profession, the important role of teachers in society, and seek to inspire others to pursue this noble profession. …
As part of its Children in Media series, National Public Radio used the expertise of the UW-Madison School of Education’s Cooperative Children’s Book Center (CCBC) to examine why — even as the face of the nation changes –- only a small fraction of children’s books have main characters that are Latino, Native American, black or Asian.