Media Mentions
Kurt Squire on TIME.com
November 6, 2013
Kurt Squire says game developers foresee a time when students won't have to take tests; teachers will know from their learning and game play how they're doing (TIME.com, 6 Nov.)
Jerlando Jackson in Diverse Issues in Higher Education and the St. Thomas Source
October 25, 2013
Jerlando Jackson discusses the International Colloquium on Black Males in Education, of which he (and his colleagues at the Wei LAB) are co-hosts (Diverse Issues in Higher Education, 24 Oct ; St. Thomas Source, 25 Oct.)
David Williamson Shaffer in the Blog for Civic Renewal
October 22, 2013
Scholar Peter Levine applies David Williamson Shaffer's concept of epistemic frames to the subject of moral thinking (Blog for Civic Renewal, 22 Oct.)
Ryan Adserias in the Wisconsin State Journal
October 21, 2013
Wei LAB Research Associate Ryan Adserias, co-chair of UW's Ad Hoc Diversity Planning Committee, is working to improve the university's efforts at diversifying the campus community and making it more inclusive (Wisconsin State Journal; 21 Oct.)
David Williamson Shaffer in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
October 4, 2013
David Williamson Shaffer discusses UW-Madison's first virtual engineering internship that he and his team developed (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 4 Oct).
MSAN on Gazettenet.com
October 2, 2013
The Minority Student Achievement Network (MSAN) kicked off its conference with a talk by noted educator Calvin Terrell, in Amherst, MA (Gazettenet.com).
Xueli Wang in Inside Higher Ed
October 1, 2013
Xueli Wang discusses the results of her study "Why Students Choose STEM Majors: Motivation, High School Learning, and Postsecondary Context of Support" (Inside Higher Ed, 1 October).
Catherine Compton-Lilly, Adam Gamoran, and Gary Cook in the Capital Times
September 29, 2013
Catherine Compton-Lilly, Adam Gamoran, and Gary Cook talk about the Common Core Standards (Capital Times, 29 September).
Families and Schools Together in the Science Newsline
September 26, 2013
Families and Schools Together has been found to reduce mobility of African-American students by 29 percent (Science Newsline, 26 Sept.)
Brad Carl in the Capital Times
September 18, 2013
VARC's Brad Carl says that the DPI school report card was carefully thought out, yet should be applied only where it gives a meaningful measurement (Capital Times, 18 Sept.).
Allan Odden on GrandForksHerald.com
September 11, 2013
Allan Odden gives the North Dakota Legislature an A-plus for its work in providing adequate and equitable funding to K-12 public schools (GrandForksHerald.com, 11 Sept.).
Gary Cook in Education Week
August 30, 2013
WIDA's Gary Cook helped write national recommendations for states to use when identifying and helping English Language Learners (Education Week, 30 August).
Mitchell Nathan in the Washington Post
August 27, 2013
Mitchell Nathan comments on the most and least effective study techniques (Washington Post, 27 Aug.).
Constance Steinkuehler in the Christian Science Monitor
August 26, 2013
Constance Steinkuehler talks about about potential links between video games and violence (Christian Science Monitor, 26 Aug.).
Beth Graue in the UW-Madison News
August 13, 2013
Beth Graue discusses things parents can do to prepare young children for school (UW-Madison News, 13 Aug.).
