Media Mentions
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)
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)
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)
Madeline Hafner in the Badger-Herald
March 23, 2015
Madeline Hafner says racially integrated schools bring a host of benefits to students who attend them (Badger-Herald, 23 March).
Matt Hora in Inside Higher Ed
March 16, 2015
Business leaders tell Matt Hora and his team they want employees with "soft skills" as well as technical skills (Inside Higher Ed, 16 March)
Sara Goldrick-Rab in U.S. News and World Report
February 23, 2015
In a study of low-income high school graduates, Sara Goldrick-Rab found that enrolling in community college raised their odds of earning bachelor's degrees (U.S. News, 23 Feb.)
Clif Conrad in the GW Hatchet
February 17, 2015
Clif Conrad says a campus that is more diverse from the top down can offer a more well-rounded education (GW Hatchet, 17 Feb.)
Bradley Carl in Education Week
February 13, 2015
The VARC's Bradley Carl comments on the challenges of comparing nationally norm-referenced tests (Education Week, 13 Feb.)
Delta Program in UW-Madison News
February 4, 2015
The Delta program's recommended teaching practices improve student achievement (UW-Madison News, 4 Feb.)
Delta Program on AACU.org
February 2, 2015
The Delta program provides education in teaching theory and practice to graduate students in STEM fields (AACU, 2 Feb.)
Gary Cook in Education Week
January 28, 2015
WIDA's H. Gary Cook has co-authored a new set of recommendations for how states and school districts might better identify and initially classify English-learners (Education Week, 28 Jan).
Sara Goldrick-Rab in the New York Times & The Chronicle of Higher Education
January 11, 2015
Obama's community college plan has roots in the work of Sara Goldrick-Rab, among others (New York Times, 9 Jan. and The Chronicle of Higher Education, 11 Jan.)
Sara Goldrick-Rab on Madison.com
January 11, 2015
Sara Goldrick-Rab calls President Obama's community college plan "smart and bold" (Madison.com, 11 Jan.)
Kurt Squire, Constance Steinkuehler in the Huffington Post
January 5, 2015
The Huffington post recommends paying close attention to the new focus on "good for you video games" developed by Kurt Squire, Constance Steinkuehler, and others (Huffington Post, 5 January)
UW-Madison entering mentoring training curriculum in GEN News
November 25, 2014
Northwestern is modeling its academy on the Entering Mentoring training curriculum developed at UW-Madison (GEN News, 25 Nov.)
