Jerlando Jackson in Diverse Issues in Higher Education
February 18, 2014
Jerlando F. L. Jackson is lauded for his research on black males in education (Diverse Issues in Higher Education, 18 Feb.)
Self-Affirmation Exercises Reduce Gap
February 17, 2014
Self-affirmation writing exercises have been shown to improve achievement of students who are identified as belonging to racial/ethnic groups that may be subject to stereotype threat.
Learning Physics with Hypertext and Design Challenges
February 11, 2014
CoMPASS science materials for middle schools enable students to understand relationships between concepts and principles including work, energy, force, acceleration, and mechanical advantage.
Sara Goldrick-Rab in Inside Higher Ed
February 10, 2014
Sara Goldrick-Rab says a movement to increase access to elite colleges for disadvantaged students is diverting attention away from the lack of resources available at the colleges the majority of low-income students attend. (10 Feb., Inside Higher Ed)
Matthew T. Hora in the Chronicle of Higher Education
February 10, 2014
Matthew T. Hora explains how a tool he created with Amanda Oleson and Joseph J. Ferrare for classroom observation is challenging STEM professors to improve their instruction. (10 Feb., Chronicle of Higher Education)
Gloria Ladson-Billings in The Daily Cardinal
February 9, 2014
Gloria Ladson-Billings calls for a change of emphasis from recruitment to retention of minority graduate and undergraduate students at UW-Madison. (9 Feb. The Daily Cardinal)
Richard Halverson and Allan Collins in The Guardian / Observer
February 8, 2014
'Rethinking Education in the Age of Technology,' by Richard Halverson and Allan Collins, is cited in an article about gaming and fiction (The Guardian / Observer, 8 Feb.)
Sara Goldrick-Rab in Inside Higher Ed
February 6, 2014
Sara Goldrick-Rab discusses proposals in several states to pay the tuition of low-income students attaining two-year degrees at community colleges. (6 Feb., Inside Higher Ed)
Visiting Scholar Brayboy Calls for Renewed Focus on American Indian Education in WCER
February 6, 2014
Students should be evaluated not just on their test scores or grade-point averages, but also on their capacity to craft a more democratic society, according to Bryan McKinley Jones Brayboy.
David Shaffer in the Long Beach Press-Telegram
February 3, 2014
David Shaffer touts the Epistemic Games Group's new pilot project – a virtual engineering internship for high school students in the Long Beach (CA) Unified School District (Long Beach Press-Telegram, 3 Feb.)
School Context Shapes Peer Ethnic Discrimination
February 3, 2014
As with other forms of bullying, students who are verbally or physically harassed because of their membership in an ethnic group suffer declines in their psychological, social, and academic health.
Self-affirmation writing as strategy for reducing achievement gaps
January 28, 2014
Students’ grade point average, motivation, academic engagement, and achievement goals appear to decline during middle school.
Cathy Compton-Lilly on Wisconsin Public Radio
January 28, 2014
Cathy Compton-Lilly says teachers should tailor their teaching to the needs of children from different economic backgrounds (Wisconsin Public Radio, 28 Jan.)
New CIRTL Network Commons to Promote Teaching and Learning
January 23, 2014
New funding from the Sloan Foundation will help the 22 universities of the CIRTL Network to train 7000 and graduate 2200 future STEM faculty each year.
Sara Goldrick-Rab in the San Francisco Chronicle
January 21, 2014
Sara Goldrick-Rab voices concern over the Pay It Forward model of college tuition, a plan being investigated in California in which students wouldn't have to pay for college until after graduation. (21 Jan., San Francisco Chronicle)
