Jerlando Jackson and Sara Goldrick-Rab in Diverse Issues
June 4, 2015
Jerlando Jackson and Sara Goldrick-Rab comment on proposed changes to the university tenure system (Diverse Issues, 4 June)
Brad Carl in the Wisconsin State Journal
June 4, 2015
VARC's Brad Carl discusses Wisconsin's options for selecting a new K-12 test (Wisconsin State Journal, 4 June)
Berland Article Named Most Read by Journal of the Learning Sciences
June 2, 2015
WCER researcher Leema Berland, whose work focuses on supporting and understanding student engagement in science, authored the most read article in the Journal of the Learning Sciences in 2014.
Wisconsin Equity and Inclusion Laboratory in the Madison Times
May 15, 2015
WCER's Wisconsin Equity and Inclusion Laboratory celebrates its 5th anniversary (Madison Times, 15 May)
(Re)Imagining First Grade
April 29, 2015
(Re)Imagining First Grade: Perspectives from a Texas School Serving Children of Latina/o Immigrants with Jennifer Keys Adair
National Education Equity Leaders Meet on UW-Madison Campus April 27-28
April 27, 2015
A national network of educators organized by the University of Wisconsin-Madison will gather April 27 – 28 in Madison to focus on the latest research and most promising practices for eliminating racial disparities in achievement in schools across the United States.
Bradley Carl in the Wisconsin State Journal
April 20, 2015
VARC's Bradley Carl talks about students opting out of Common Core tests (Wisconsin State Journal, 20 April)
Mark Connolly in Insider Higher Education & The Chronicle of Higher Education
April 15, 2015
Recent work by Mark Connolly and colleagues is reviewed in Inside Higher Education (men do not have the advantage that many assume they do in being hired in STEM fields) and in The Chronicle of Higher Education (Non-Asian minority members and women are slower to receive tenure, and black assistant professors are less likely to ever receive it).
Mark Connolly and Bob Mathieu in the Badger Herald
April 13, 2015
Mark Connolly and Bob Mathieu discuss the importance of training STEM researchers to be good classroom teachers too (Badger Herald, 13 April)
Mathieu named director of Wisconsin Center for Education Research
April 8, 2015
Robert Mathieu has been named director of the Wisconsin Center for Education Research (WCER), UW–Madison School of Education Dean Julie Underwood announced April 6.
Jerlando Jackson in Diverse Education
April 5, 2015
Jerlando Jackson explains how the Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity—also known as the Boulé helps young African-American males succeed (Diverse Education, 5 April)
Hora Published in Review of Higher Education
April 3, 2015
A paper by WCER researcher Matthew T. Hora investigating faculty beliefs about student learning and their influence on teaching decisions has been published by The Review of Higher Education.
Jackson Named Morris Endowed Chair at Eastern Michigan University
March 26, 2015
Jerlando F. L. Jackson will serve as the 2014-15 Michael G. Morris Endowed Chair at Eastern Michigan University. Jackson will remain in his posts at UW–Madison during the year-long special appointment.
David Williamson Shaffer in The Week
March 24, 2015
David Williamson Shaffer's team is preparing to launch the next generation of virtual internships to allow companies to train would-be interns (The Week, 24 March)
Michigan Civil Rights Commission Passes Resolution Drafted by MSAN District Students
March 23, 2015
Students from Michigan’s Farmington Public Schools, one of 28 school districts that are members of WCER’s Minority Student Achievement Network (MSAN), drafted a resolution on social justice and civil rights and successfully secured its state-level adoption by the Michigan Civil Rights Commission on Jan. 26.
