A new collaboration of Wisconsin and Minnesota education researchers formed to support education priorities in each state has won a five-year, $6.3 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education. The project’s goal is to improve the academic achievement of elementary and secondary school students in the two-state region by advancing the use of evidence-based practices. Researchers …
A new report from the Madison Education Partnership finds that rather than causing students to do poorly in school, unexcused absences may be signals of significant challenges in students’ lives. To respond, the Madison Metropolitan School District (MMSD) is working to understand and act on those signals. Student absences in grades six through eight have steadily increased …
More than 200 high school students and their chaperones from 19 U.S. school districts will be at the Madison Concourse Hotel Oct. 23-26 for the Minority Student Achievement Network Student Conference, an annual event aimed at developing student leaders dedicated to ending racial disparities in achievement and opportunity. Sponsored this year by the Middleton-Cross Plains Area …
The Center for Research on College-to-Workforce Transitions (CCWT) — a project at UW‒Madison’s Wisconsin Center for Education Research — is collaborating with the United Negro College Fund’s Career Pathways Initiative and a vocational psychologist to study internship programs at six historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) that have a high population of STEM graduates. The $1.5 million NSF-funded longitudinal, mixed-methods study …
MEP is a research-practice partnership between the School of Education’s Wisconsin Center for Education Research (WCER) and the Madison Metropolitan School District (MMSD). The Partnership runs an annual funding cycle for UW–Madison faculty and staff to encourage them to work with the school district. An overarching goal of the Partnership is to identify actions the district could …
With the release of the 2019 College Scorecard in May and the fall semester just days away, some again are asking, “Does higher education cost more than it’s worth?” And this time, graduate school debt is under scrutiny, as it offers a mixed bag of pros and cons tied to students’ race and family incomes. In a recent …
UW–Madison’s School of Education is beginning its process for finding the next director of the Wisconsin Center for Education Research (WCER). A 13-member search-and-screen committee is being led by WIDA Executive Director Tim Boals and Percival Matthews, an associate professor with the Department of Educational Psychology and a WCER researcher. The committee is strongly encouraging …
The UW-Madison Division of the Arts will welcome Ben Barson and Gizelxanath Rodriguez as the Spring 2020 Interdisciplinary Artists in Residence. The Spring 2020 Interdisciplinary Arts Residency Program is presented by the UW-Madison Division of the Arts and hosted by the Asian American Studies Program, with Associate Professor Peggy Choy of the School of Education’s Dance Department as lead faculty. …
As parents, students and teachers prepare for the upcoming 2019-20 school year, experts from UW–Madison’s School of Education are ready to share their thoughts with media members on a variety of topics. Social Media Use What’s the right age for a child to have a smart phone? What rules work best for parents and schools …
Just one phone call from China helped connect the Wisconsin Center for Education Research (WCER) to schools around the world. In 2008, the Shanghai American School contacted Timothy Boals, executive director of the WIDA Consortium at WCER, about using WIDA’s acclaimed research-based standards and assessments to help English-language learners (ELL). “A teacher there had used our language development tools …