Graduate students at UW–Madison’s School of Education are honing their skills and advancing their careers by collaborating with seasoned researchers on a $10.1 million project to develop more equity-centered school principals.
WCER's Field Day Lab is marking a decade of impactful learning game development for Wisconsin students with a celebration at Memorial Union and a new push with the state Department of Public Instruction to get educational games in classrooms.
The Wisconsin Center for Education Research and the Multicultural Student Achievement Network (MSAN) today announced that more than 150 high school students and their chaperones from multiracial school districts across the country are meeting this week (Nov. 13-16) in East Lansing, MI for the 25th annual MSAN Student Conference.
A new multimedia resource developed by WCER researcher Brian Burt aims to draw more Black men into the science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields using research-backed methods to support Black boys and men in STEM from primary school through doctoral studies and in home settings.
WCER's Epistemic Analytics lab shared tools and techniques with 29 attendees from across the country in an intensive, four-day program around quantitative ethnography, a methodology without peer in pulling human insights from big data.
MLRC Speaker Series | Examining Multilingual Learners’ Proficiency on Standardized Assessments: Trends and Disparities Across the WIDA Consortium
Narék Sahakyan, WIDA Researcher
WCER and its projects host dozens of lectures, panel discussions and other events throughout the academic year.
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School of Education Communications, Mar 7
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Aguirre, S. & Chou, A. (2024). The Seal of Biliteracy 2024 national report, for the 2022-2023 school year. SealofBiliteracy.org report prepared by Samuel Aguirre and Arthur Chou. Originally published on December 9, 2024.
“On Collaborentoring,” Xueli Wang, Inside Higher Ed, February 2025
“Supporting first-generation graduate students,” Bailey B. Smolarek, Nature Reviews Psychology, March 2025
"Student Service Member/Veteran Engagement with University Military-Focused Student Services: A Mixed Methods Study," Ross J. Benbow, You-Geon Lee, Innovative Higher Education, February 2025
Ross J. Benbow, Xin Xie, and You-Geon Lee, February 2025
Xueli Wang was awarded $500,000 from the Spencer Foundation for “Thriving in Community Colleges: A Longitudinal Mixed Methods Study of Student Mental Health and Educational Success” through May 30, 2029. (020625)
Emily Brinck was awarded $1,965,137 from the U.S. Department of Education, in a subcontract from Florida Atlantic University, for “Access to Advanced Technology Careers and Creating A 21st Century Workforce of Youth and/or Adults with Disabilities Leading to CIE” through Sept. 30, 2029. (020425)
Mitchell Nathan was awarded $373,993 from the National Science Foundation for “Collaborative Research: Data-Driven Interviewing to Study the Embodied Cognitive Shifts that Occur During Geometry Learning” through Feb. 28, 2027. (020425)
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