School of Education | University of Wisconsin–Madison
UW–Madison researchers teamed with New England conservation nonprofit Mass Audubon to create an online learning game that lets players model how different zoning choices would affect the environment, jobs, housing and other real-world factors for any location in the contiguous U.S. Built using a variety of state and federal data sets, the free game, known as iPlan, lets …
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 …
From The Conversation: Of all the terms used to describe students who don’t perform well in traditional educational settings, few are used as frequently — or as casually — as the term “at-risk.” The term is regularly used in federal and state education policy discussions, as well as popular news articles and specialty trade journals. It is often applied to large groups of students with …
Whether we’re measuring teacher skills or school performance, value-added evaluation continues to shape our definition of successful education. According to researchers at the Value-Added Research Center (VARC) at UW–Madison, a value-added model is simply a statistical formula that estimates the contribution of schools, classrooms, teachers, and other educational factors to student achievement. What makes value-added …
Every day, about 250 million people log in to Facebook. X (formerly Twitter) has 15 million regular users; they send 65 million messages each day. People watch more than two billion video clips on YouTube daily. Every hour, users upload an average of 24 hours of video content. Every day, more than 90% of college students …
Classrooms across the country are welcoming an ever-growing number of students whose native language is not English. Learning English is tough enough, especially when you’re a student learning academic content at the same time. Helping students meet academic goals while negotiating a new language challenges teachers, too. Each English language learner (ELL) has a unique …
Elementary-age students bring lots of things to school with them — besides huge backpacks stuffed with supplies. They bring ingenuity, intuitive knowledge, and mathematical insight. They sometimes amaze their teachers with innovative ways to solve problems. When mathematics teachers link classroom instruction to students’ intuitive knowledge, students can go a long way. What is CGI? …
“Five-year-old boys with summer birthdays are rarely ready for kindergarten. They should spend another year at home or in nursery school.” You often hear that statement. But the suggestion is unsubstantiated by research, according to UW–Madison Education Professor Elizabeth Graue and Lehigh University’s James DiPerna. Their study challenges conventional wisdom about the value of redshirting and …