School of Education | University of Wisconsin–Madison
Authors: Rita MacDonald, David Crowther, Melissa Braaten, Wendy Binder, Justine Chien, Troy Dassler, Tricia Shelton, and Jennifer Wilfrid February 2020, 10 pp. Abstract: The National Research Council’s 2012 Framework for K-12 Science Education states that science education should “provide all students with the background to systematically investigate issues related to their personal and community practices …
From The Conversation: When her college started requiring students to complete an internship in order to graduate, it created a serious dilemma for Janelle. “I wouldn’t be able to do classes, do the internship and work to make money — which is kind of important because I’m basically just paying for school as I can,” Janelle …
By The 74 Interview Gloria Ladson-Billings remembers that there was a difference between the black and white teachers she had growing up in Philadelphia. African-American teachers could give the students “the talk,” she recalls, referring to a 2017 Procter & Gamble television advertisement that showed black parents talking to their kids about racism. The black teachers …
Authors: Matthew T. Hora, Matthew Wolfgram, Zi Chen December 2019, 37 pp. Abstract: Internships are widely perceived as a “high-impact practice” that opens the doors of opportunity for college students, yet little is known about obstacles to participation. Instead, educators and employers too often view participation as unproblematic, with many postsecondary institutions beginning to mandate …
Authors: H. Rose Miesner, Elizabeth E. Blair, Chiara C. Packard, Maria Velazquez, Lyn Macgregor, Eric Grodsky September 2019, 26 pp. Abstract: Teacher collaboration is a key factor in improving instructional quality and promoting student achievement. Though research attests to the importance of school contextual elements for teachers’ work, few studies investigate how these factors interact …
Authors: Steven Kimball, Jessica Arrigoni, Herb Heneman, Elisabeth Geraghty, Daniel Marlin, Bradley Carl, Curtis Jones, Elizabeth Cain, Anthony Milanowski, Katharine Rainey August 2019, 36 pp. Abstract: Major teacher evaluation changes have occurred across the nation during the past decade. Pressed by federal education initiatives and encouraged by research on promising teacher evaluation practices, states and …
Authors: Matthew T. Hora, Emily Parrott, Pa Her July 2019, 31 pp. Abstract: Internships are a widely touted co-curricular activity that may enhance students’ employability, their future wages, and employer talent needs. However, how students themselves understand and conceptualize the internship experience is poorly understood. Understanding students’ perceptions of internships matters because debates about employability …
Authors: Rich Halverson, Erica Rosenfeld Halverson May 2019, 23 pp. Abstract: How can we see education research as a coherent body of inquiry? The naturally occurring diversity of epistemologies and methods gives education research the appearance of discord. In this paper, we propose that all of these various methods, questions, and interpretive frameworks of education …
Authors: Tameka Porter, H. Gary Cook, Narek Sahakyan May 2019, 16 pp. Abstract: The authors illustrate models and procedures that can be applied to calculate overall composite scores in order to identify an indicator of English language proficiency, based on composite scores for English learners with 504 or individualized education plans who are missing one …
Authors: Peter Goff, Xin Xie, Minseok Yang, Lena Batt, Lydia Gandy-Fastovich, Yasmin Rodriguez-Escutia, Hyunwoo Yang, Eunji You March 2019, 26 pp. Abstract: This study develops, validates, and applies a typology of teachers using labor market data. We construct our typology by applying a correlated topic model to 17,000 personal statements teachers submitted as part of …