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Multicultural Student Achievement Network 25th Annual Student Conference Addresses “Leaving Our Legacy”
The Wisconsin Center for Education Research (WCER) 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…
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WIDA is Partner in Accessible Pathways Project Awarded $3.9 Million to Advance Research on Multilingual Learners With Disabilities
The state of Minnesota has been awarded $3.998 million over four years for the Accessible Pathways Project through the Competitive Grants for State Assessments (CGSA) competition. This project aims to better understand and…
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UW–Madison’s Burt Launches Black Males in Engineering Project Aimed at Combating Shortage of Black Men in STEM
A new multimedia resource aimed at combating the shortage of Black men in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields launched today at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. As the shortage of Black…
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Former DNR Comms Director Joins WCER as Director of Communications & Marketing
Katie Grant joined WCER’s leadership team as the center’s new director of communications & marketing on Aug. 12. Grant is a communications professional with a focus on organic social media strategy and…
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U.S. Scholars Learn “New Ways of Imagining” Research Data in Summer Institute on Campus
Angela Crumdy, a postdoctoral researcher of teacher development at the University of Pennsylvania, had at least two compelling reasons for visiting UW–Madison for a week in July to learn a research methodology…
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Two School of Education/WCER Members Awarded Research Fellowships for 2024–25
Thirty-two UW–Madison faculty have been awarded fellowships from the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research for 2024–25, including School of Education/WCER members David Kaplan and Andy Garbacz. The awardees span the four research divisions on…
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WCER Members Selected to be Morgridge Fellows for 2024–2025
Fifteen faculty and campus members at UW–Madison have been named Morgridge Fellows for 2024–2025, including WCER members Matthew Wolfgram and Amanda Fowler, WCER/School of Education researcher/professor Shamya Karumbaiah, and SoE doctoral student Virginia Downing. The 15 were selected through a juried process for…
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WCER Researchers Work With Uruguay Leaders to Improve Country’s Innovative Ed-Tech Center
Top officials in Uruguay are working with UW–Madison researchers who are experts in pulling rich new patterns of meaning about culture and human behavior from big data to assess and improve the…
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Forbes Features Wei LAB Project Building Pathways to Inclusion in Engineering
A project out of Wisconsin’s Equity and Inclusion Laboratory (Wei LAB) that aims to more fully engage women and people of color in engineering was featured in a recent Forbes article headlined…
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VETWAYS Explores Social Support Networks for Student Military Across the Country
Current and former members of the military tend to thrive in higher education when service providers reach out to them early and when faculty members recognize the breadth of experience they bring…
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