Media Mentions

Sara Goldrick-Rab in the Community College Week

February 4, 2013

Sara Goldrick-Rab discusses changes to the Pell Grant program and how they will affect community college student success (Community College Week, 4 Feb.).


Sara Goldrick-Rab in the Chronicle of Higher Education

January 31, 2013

The NCAA Student Assistance Fund provides financial support to student athletes. But some of the money goes to unrelated uses. That indicates that "schools do not always work on behalf of their students," says Sara Goldrick-Rab, associate professor of educational-policy studies and sociology. "We can't simply trust them to act in students' best interests—we need to demand it." (Chronicle of Higher Education, 31 Jan.).


Allen Phelps in the Wisconsin State Journal

January 18, 2013

Allen Phelps, former director of the Center on Education and Work, says Madison Area Technical College's search for a new president should draw several qualified candidates, in part because of the college's increasingly close relationship with UW-Madison  (Wisconsin State Journal, 18 Jan.).


Sara Goldrick-Rab and Robert Kelchen in Inside Higher Ed

December 18, 2012

Sara Goldrick-Rab and Robert Kelchen find that guaranteeing a Pell Grant to students who qualify for free school lunch in 8th grade could increase college retention rates (Inside Higher Ed, 18 Dec.).


VARC in JSonline

November 17, 2012

The Value-Added Research Center helps educators make good use of data through sophisticated work (JSonline, 17 Nov.).


WIDA in Education Week

November 11, 2012

Writing in Education Week, Lesli Maxwell notes the value of a new tool developed at WIDA: "The group is using a special tool developed by researchers at the University of Wisconsin that can grade test items by their language complexity and give test designers a clear picture of how they can make the language more accessible for an ELL without diluting the content being tested." 


Drew Anderson in Education Week

October 24, 2012

Graduate student and ITP Fellow Drew Anderson and former UW-Madison education professor Douglas Harris examine the application of a value-added approach to middle school math scores (Education Week, 24 Oct.)


Sara Goldrick-Rab in The Chronicle

October 18, 2012

Sara Goldrick-Rab says income-based repayment programs have the potential to help students pursue postsecondary education while worrying less about debt (The Chronicle, 18 Oct).


Madeline Hafner in the Boston Globe

October 18, 2012

Brookline and Cambridge, Mass., schools belong to the Minority Student Achievement Network; Madeline Hafner comments on boosting student achievement  (Boston Globe, 18 Oct.).


Adam Gamoran on Madison.com

October 9, 2012

Political parties at the state level have cooperated on some education issues and Adam Gamoran says that may reflect similarities between the parties nationally (Madison.com, 9 Oct.).


Adam Gamoran in the Badger Herald

October 9, 2012

Adam Gamoran says the cuts in federal education spending have harmed the university’s ability to competitively seek grants for research (Badger Herald, 9 Oct.).


Adam Gamoran in the Badger Herald

September 24, 2012

Adam Gamoran comments on reports that Wisconsin exceeds national averages in both SAT and Advanced Placement scores (Badger Herald, 24 Sept).


David Williamson Shaffer in the Boston Globe

September 16, 2012

David Williamson Shaffer says if we build smarter, more sophisticated tests, we can change education itself (Boston Globe, 16 Sept.)


Adam Gamoran in the Pacific Standard

August 22, 2012

Adam Gamoran says schools that want to keep ability-grouping should do a better job with students in the lowest tracks, but that the most capable students may not be sufficiently challenged in mixed-ability classes (Pacific Standard, 22 Aug).


Kurt Squire and Richard Davidson in the Epoch Times

August 14, 2012

Kurt Squire and Richard Davidson are developing two educational games: One to cultivate attention and the other to cultivate empathy, kindness, and pro-social behavior (the Epoch Times, 14 August).