Wisconsin attracts thousands of tourists year-round who make the trek to explore its scenic farmlands, and camp, canoe, ski, fish and hike its great outdoors. While visitors to Wisconsin’s rural and wilderness areas are plentiful, attracting teachers to its smaller cities and townships can be a challenge, say some education experts. Why is that? It’s …
John Diamond has spent more than a decade examining various aspects of academic disparities in schools and conducting in-depth research into the hot-button issue that’s commonly referred to as the racial achievement gap. And over the years, one theme in Diamond’s investigations has consistently emerged. “This is a very complex problem and there aren’t simple answers,” …
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 …
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.