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.)
FAST Program Reduces African American Student Mobility
October 18, 2013
The Families and Schools Together (FAST) program has been shown to reduce the number of students who change schools for reasons other than grade promotion
Focusing on the Science in Science Explanations
October 7, 2013
To make science education reform a reality, we would benefit from a clearer vision of what scientific explanation really is, and does.
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).
Grade Inflation? Probably Not
October 1, 2013
Grodsky challenges the definition of grade inflation as merely "increases in grade point average." He emphasizes the larger "signaling power" of grades.
“Learning English” vs Academic Success
September 30, 2013
For years we've heard debates about whether teachers should use bilingual or English-Only instruction when teaching English Language Learners (ELLs).
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.)
2013 MSAN Student Conference Seeks to Give Students “Courage to Act”
September 25, 2013
Hundreds of high school students from across the country are convening in Amherst, Mass. from Sept. 25-28 for the 2013 Minority Student Achievement Network Student Conference, a gathering designed to develop student leaders dedicated to closing academic achievement gaps in the nation’s schools.
Long-time WCER Researcher Nystrand Returns for One More CLASS
September 24, 2013
Martin Nystrand first came to WCER in 1984, when he brought his expertise in dialogic organization of discourse into a multi-pronged, multi-disciplinary study of classroom conversations between students and teachers. Now, almost 30 years later, Nystrand has come out of retirement to work on a project that will create a technological tool that will make data collection inside classrooms cheaper and easier for the next generation of education researchers.
Recreational Computer Use Can Benefit Students
September 23, 2013
UW-Madison education professor Matthew Berland says that using computers for fun and video gaming is associated with positive effects on high school students' reading and mathematics achievement test scores.
Meyer, Jackson to Serve on Panels in Washington, DC
September 20, 2013
Wisconsin Equity and Inclusion Laboratory (Wei LAB) director Dr. Jerlando F. L. Jackson and executive director of the Value-Added Research Center (VARC) Rob Meyer will be featured panelists at two separate conferences in Washington DC in the coming days.
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.).
