Report: Perfect attendance would have ‘very modest’ effect on Madison middle school achievement gap
September 25, 2019 | By Logan Wroge
The Wisconsin State Journal covers implications of new research from WCER's Madison Education Partnership into signals sent by middle school student absences in the Madison School District.
Middle School Absences Send Important Signal
September 25, 2019 | By Madison Education Partnership
A new report from the Madison Education Partnership finds that rather than causing students to do poorly in school, unexcused absences may be signals of significant challenges in students’ lives.
Internships as a High-Impact Practice?
September 23, 2019 | By Matthew T. Hora
Matthew T. Hora argues in Inside Higher Ed that colleges and universities should proceed with caution before they encourage or even require students to take them.
WCER launches $1.5 million study of 6 Historically Black Colleges and Universities
September 20, 2019 | By NBC15 staff
A new collaboration between WCER, the United Negro College Fund and UW-Madison's Counseling Psychology Department will study internship programs at six Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) with a high number of STEM graduates.
WCER launches $1.5 million internship study of six Historically Black Colleges and Universities
September 19, 2019 | By Lynn Armitage
The Center for Research on College to Workforce Transitions (CCWT)—a project at UW‒Madison’s Wisconsin Center for Education Research—is collaborating with the United Negro College Fund’s Career Pathways Initiative and a vocational psychologist to study internship programs at six HBCUs (Historically Black Colleges and Universities) that have a high population of STEM graduates.
UW professor says teaching is most important part of professor’s job
September 17, 2019 | By Molly DeVore
The Badger Herald reports on a talk by WCER researcher Harry Brighouse, a philosophy professor, on strengthening education outcomes as a part of the Wisconsin Idea, Past and Present lecture series.
Crafting and Marketing Student Experience
September 16, 2019
The fall 2019 seminar series of the Center for Research on College to Workforce Transitions launches with a presentation by Bonnie Uricuoli, professor emerita of anthropology at Hamilton College, who discusses how colleges and universities are marketing a combination of student life (such as "First Year Experience" programs) with the academics of higher education.
Making the first day of kindergarten a success
August 29, 2019
Channel 3 WISC-TV, the local CBS affiliate for Madison, Wisc., interviewed UW-Madison professor and director of WCER's CRECE, the Center for Research on Early Childhood Education, on how to make the transition to kindergarten as positive as possible for children and parents.
Five ways parents can help their kids transition smoothly to middle school
August 27, 2019 | By Phyllis Fagell
This Washington Post article, also picked up by the New Hampshire Union Leader on Sept. 1, quotes UW--Madison professor and WCER researcher Geoffrey Borman. The article describes research he conducted to determine if it is possible to bolster kids’ sense of belonging by sharing with them that it is normal for students to be anxious about starting middle school, but that they eventually feel better.
Experts share how to make transition back to school as smooth as possible
August 27, 2019 | By Isabel Lawrence
Beth Graue, director of WCER's Center for Research on Early Childhood Education, is featured in a news segment by Madison's local NBC news affiliate, WMTV Channel 15, on how families can make the transition back to school as smooth as possible.
Why mentoring is important for biotech careers
August 22, 2019 | By Don Potochny
WCER researcher Chris Pfund, director of the Center for the Improvement of Mentored Experiences in Research, (CIMER), helps break down the benefits of mentoring in a biotech career for an article on the BioSpace website, commenting, “In short, good mentorship impacts who does science, how productive they are, and how satisfied they are on a science career path."
How grad schools became the hidden culprit behind America’s student-debt crisis
August 22, 2019 | By Allana Akhtar and Hillary Hoffower
Business Insider notes that in 1992, 45% of advanced-degree households comprised the national $41.5 billion student-loan-debt total (in real 2016 dollars); in 2016, 51% of advanced-degree households comprised the $1.3 trillion in debt, according to "Inequality and Opportunity in a Perfect Storm of Graduate Student Debt," a working paper by WCER researchers Jaymes Pyne and Eric Grodsky.
Wisconsin should rethink its entire teacher certification process
August 20, 2019 | By Mark Schug and Scott Niederjohn
In January 2018, the Wisconsin Center for Education Research in the School of Education at UW-Madison released a rigorous working paper titled "Supply and Demand for Public School Teachers in Wisconsin." The authors state that there is no statewide teacher shortage. However, this guest column in the Milton Courier addresses the "perceived" teacher shortages for which a bipartisan group of state legislators have introduced a bill to make it easier for qualified teachers from other states to become licensed in Wisconsin.
Increasing graduate student debt affects African American students most, study finds
August 15, 2019 | By WCER Communications
A new study shows low-income and African American graduate students increasingly face a double-edged sword of advanced-degree promise and peril: better-than-average income returns on graduate and professional degrees but levels of debt to earn those degrees that outpace the debt borne by white students.
Study links positive messages about middle school to better grades, behavior
August 12, 2019 | By Linda Jacobson
Website Education Dive breaks down a new study by WCER education researchers showing the benefits of proactively addressing students’ anxieties to ease the path to middle school for sixth graders.
