Parents’ Expectations for Children with Disabilities
November 18, 2013
UW–Madison education professor Bonnie Doren finds that parents’ expectations for their children with disabilities varies by family income and by the adolescent’s particular disability.
Mitchell Nathan: PI Interview
November 14, 2013
Mitchell Nathan: Researcher at WCER, Director of the Center for Education and Work (CEW)
Sara Goldrick-Rab in USA TODAY
November 13, 2013
Sara Goldrick-Rab says the Federal work-study program should be more politically popular than it is (USA TODAY, 13 Nov.)
Parents’ Expectations and Student Achievement
November 11, 2013
UW-Madison education professor Bonnie Doren examines the relationship between parent expectations for their adolescents with disabilities, and the adolescents’ achievement of important school and post-school benchmarks
Brad Carl in The Cap Times
November 9, 2013
VARC's Brad Carl discusses NAEP results and the state' achievement gap (The Cap Times, 9 Nov.)
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.)
Hora, Oleson Study Data Driven Decision-Making in STEM Departments
November 5, 2013
WCER researchers Matt Hora and Amanda Oleson have co-authored three new research reports spelling out recommendations to STEM faculty and administrators on the use of data for improving curriculum and instruction.
Talent Management in Education
October 31, 2013
Educators and policymakers across the United States want to place effective teachers into all classrooms and effective principals into all schools.
Increasing Student Success in STEM Fields
October 28, 2013
The Federal government’s STEP program supports grassroots efforts to increase the number of students who enter and complete degrees in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields.
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.)
Reforming Income-Based Loan Programs
October 22, 2013
The costs of higher education present students with a major hurdle to enrolling and completing a college degree.
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.
