A new study finds that occupations typically requiring more than high school but less than a bachelor’s degree, such as maintenance and repair workers, account for 16% of all U.S. jobs, much lower than previous estimates.
Read about the latest research on these hot topics and more in the summer issue of ForwardED.
Have you heard of ALTELLA? It’s a new project at WCER that helps states develop federally mandated assessments for English language learners with significant cognitive disabilities, a K-12 population largely overlooked in the U.S.
Learn what Madison Education Partnership researchers discovered about excused and unexcused absences in Madison’s public schools.
Nearly 2 million 2018 college graduates are readying themselves for the workforce, however, past or present, we know little about this life-changing transition to the world of work. Two new CCWT research projects take off to start filling in the blanks.
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New Books Network, Aug 20
WCER Communications, Aug 14
The Capital Times, Aug 7
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Superior Telegram, Jul 23
Jaymes Pyne and Eric Grodsky , August 2018
Jaymes Pyne and Eric Grodsky, August 2018
"Culturally Responsive Indigenous Evaluation and Tribal Governments: Understanding the Relationship" Waapalaneexkweew (Nicole Bowman) and Carolee Dodge‐Francis, New Directions in Evaluation, 2018.
“Advancing Equity and Diversity in Student Affairs: A Festschrift in Honor of Melvin C. Terrell,” edited by Jerlando F.L. Jackson, LaVar J. Charleston and Cornelius Gilbert. Includes introduction by Jerlando F. L. Jackson and chapter by Devon Wilson, 2018.
“Cultural Capital at Work: How Cognitive and Noncognitive Skills are Taught, Trained and Rewarded in a Chinese Technical College,” Matthew T. Hora and Chelsea A. Blackburn Cohen, Community College Review, 2018.
Annalee Good (PI) was awrded $63,000 from the U.S. Department Of Education for the project "Javits Expanding Excellence - Milwaukee Public Schools" through 2022.
Martha Alibali (PI) was awarded $524,049 by the National Science Foundation for the project “Collaborative Research: Fostering Conceptual Understanding and Skill with an Intelligent Tutoring System for Equation Solving through 2021.
Matthew Hora was awarded $25,000 from the University of Wisconsin System for the study of college internships on student outcomes.
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