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).
