Conference brings more than 200 to Madison to discuss equity for students of color
October 23, 2019 | By Scott Girard
The Cap Times' Scott Girard spoke with MSAN Executive Director Madeline Hafner about this year's MSAN Student Conference, attended by more than 200 students of color and their chaperones from across the nation to work on equity challenges.
History and Knowledge from Below: Living and Learning Otherwise
October 23, 2019
Targol Mesbah, of the California Institute of Integral Studies, discusses Mexico's Zapatista indigenous peasant movement, which for 25 years has resisted colonial and racialized capitalism by building autonomous communities, councils and schools to create a world in which many worlds fit. She reflects on what lessons the political theory and practice of this leading contemporary social movement can teach those in "otherplaces" about living, learning and teaching during intensifying environmental destruction, political violence, and displacements of human and non-human populations.
UW-Madison researchers receive $1.2M grant to examine decline of early care and education providers
October 22, 2019 | By Todd Finkelmeyer
A team of researchers from UW-Madison, led by Amy Claessens, an associate professor with the School of Education’s Department of Educational Policy Studies and the associate director of the Center for Research on Early Childhood Education (CRECE), secured a $1.2 million grant to partner with the State of Wisconsin to examine a significant decline in the number of regulated early care and education (ECE) providers operating over the past 15 years.
MSAN Student Conference Aims to Empower Next Generation of Equity Leaders
October 22, 2019 | By Karen Rivedal, WCER Communications
More than 200 high school students and their chaperones from 19 U.S. school districts will be in Madison Wednesday through Saturday for the MSAN Student Conference, presented by the UW-Madison School of Education annually to develop student leaders dedicated to ending racial disparities in achievement and opportunity.
Wisconsin Partnership Program Awards $1M to One City Schools and UW-Madison Education Research Team
October 17, 2019 | By Janet L. Kelly
A team of early childhood educators and university evaluators, including WCER's Beth Graue and Tenah Hunt, won a $1 million community impact grant from the Wisconsin Partnership Program at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. The five-year grant will be used to train teachers, document and evaluate Madison’s innovative One City Schools. Graue and Hunt will work with One City to develop and implement a multilayered professional development and evaluation process.
One City Schools Gets $1 Million Grant for Long-term Study on Student Outcomes
October 17, 2019 | By Scott Girard
One City Schools and and UW-Madison researchers Beth Graue and Tenah Hunt of the the School of Education's Wisconsin Center for Education Research will partner in a $1 million grant awarded by the Wisconsin Partnership Program at UW's School of Medicine and Public Health. The grant funds professional development training for all One City teachers and a five-year study of the school's educational methods and student outcomes. Graue and Hunt will develop and implement a rigorous longitudinal evaluation of the school's education approach, including how the school trains staff, engages parents and the larger community, and prepares its young children.
New Wisconsin-Minnesota Education Partnership Wins $6.3M Federal Award
October 16, 2019 | By Janet L. Kelly
A new collaboration of Wisconsin and Minnesota education researchers formed to support education priorities in each state has won a five-year, $6.3 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education. The overall goal of the project, directed by Steven Kimball and WCER colleague Alisia Moutry, as well as the University of Minnesota's Kim Gibbons and Education Analytics' Ernest Morgan, is to improve the academic achievement of elementary and secondary school students in the two-state region by advancing the use of evidence-based practices.
Supporting Teacher Emotional Health: Reducing Stress and/or Improving Well-Being
October 11, 2019
Nathaniel von der Embse shares insights from a series of studies across states, throughout a school year, and within a school day highlighting the conflicting influences of stress and well-being on teacher burnout and instructional practices. He will highlight implications for supporting teacher emotional health.
Fair Pay To Play Hailed As Game-Changer
October 10, 2019 | By Roscoe Nance
WCER's Jerlando Jackson, chief research scientist for Wei LAB and a former track and field athlete at the University of Virginia who walked on but eventually earned a scholarship, discusses implications of new California law creating legal right for that state's college athletes to be paid for use of their identities starting in 2023.
“No, Wisconsin!”
October 10, 2019 | By Gloria Ladson-Billings
WCER's Gloria Ladson-Billings sounds off on the UW Homecoming video and campus climate for students of color.
Examining Relationships Between Group Hierarchy and Racial Identity Attitudes
October 9, 2019
Malik Boykin, Presidential Diversity Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Cognitive, Linguistic and Psychological Science at Brown University, researches intergroup relations, mentorship, prejudice and racial identity. He is working to publish a manuscript based on his dissertation, which demonstrates several psychological processes associated with endorsing negative stereotypes about Historically Black Colleges and Universities.
This event is part of the Wisconsin Ideas in Education Lecture Series, an interdisciplinary speaker series intended for educators and future educators across campus. It is organized by early career faculty members from UW-Madison’s School of Education, with support from the Wisconsin Center for Education Research.
Examining Relationships Between Group Hierarchy and Racial Identity Attitudes Video
October 9, 2019
Malik Boykin, presidential diversity postdoctoral fellow at Brown University, researches intergroup relations, mentorship, prejudice and racial identity. He is working to publish a manuscript based on his dissertation, which demonstrates several psychological processes associated with endorsing negative stereotypes about Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs).
WCER Experts Explain Critical Intersection between Education, Health
October 8, 2019 | By Karen Rivedal, WCER Communications
University researchers and evaluators versed in rural schools, the community-school model and the schooling of Native American children in Wisconsin shared their expertise and latest evidence-based findings recently in a public hearing at the state Capitol focused on the critical intersection between education and health.
MSAN Student Conference Aims to Empower
October 8, 2019 | By WCER Communications
The annual gathering, now in its 20th year, aims to develop student leaders dedicated to ending racial disparities in achievement and opportunity.
(Auto)Ethnographic Perspectives on the College-Workforce Transition for Anthropology Majors
October 1, 2019
Daniel Ginsberg, manager of education, research and professional development at the American Athropoological Association and anthropologist in residence at American University, will discuss (auto)ethnographic perspectives on the college-to-workforce transition for anthropology majors. This is part of the Center for Research on College-to-Workforce Transitions (CCWT) Fall 2019 Seminar Series, co-sponsored by the UW-Madison Department of Anthropology, American Anthropological Association and the Wisconsin Center for Education Research.
