How Reading Recovery Implementation Fails African American Students

November 20, 2012

Reading and literacy programs help many students catch up to their grade level.


The Role and Use of Examples in Learning to Prove

November 19, 2012

Mathematicians often spend lots of time considering and analyzing examples before they attempt to develop a formal proof of a conjecture.


VARC in JSonline

November 17, 2012

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


Improving Students’ Postsecondary Outcomes

November 12, 2012

Sara Goldrick-Rab and colleagues are reviewing research evidence and developing products to support the What Works Clearinghouse (WWC), primarily in the area of postsecondary education.


WIDA in Education Week

November 11, 2012

Writing in Education Week Leslie 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."


Code Talker: David Woods

November 10, 2012

David Woods can be found on the third floor of the Educational Sciences building, his face illuminated by six computer monitors arranged in a crescent around his desk. Behind him are five more monitors. Woods, hacking away on a field of keyboards, appears capable of docking the U.S.S. Enterprise into Starfleet Headquarters.


Speaking the Same Language at WIDA Academic Literacy Conference

November 5, 2012

Experts on the teaching and learning of language by minority students convened in Madison from Oct. 9 to 12 for a conference funded by the American Education Research Association and WCER.


From Baseball to International Student Assessments

November 2, 2012

UW Madison education professor David Kaplan is a member of the Society for American Baseball Research, which includes major and minor league baseball officials, broadcasters and writers, historians, analysts, and former players.


Studying and Designing Makerspaces

October 29, 2012

Makerspaces are emerging, informal sites for creative production in art, science, and engineering where people of all ages blend digital and physical technologies to explore ideas, learn technical skills, and create new products.


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.)


Excitement Builds Around WIDA Conferences

October 23, 2012

When WIDA released its 2012 Amplification of the English Language Development Standards in August, the organization’s leadership knew educators would be excited to see the latest on methods for teaching English language learners.


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.).


Measuring Complex Thinking in STEM Subjects

October 15, 2012

David Williamson Shaffer and Naomi Chesler continue to develop a toolkit for measuring how students think about problems in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) subjects.


The Glass Ceiling

October 15, 2012

Any woman or person of color denied promotion for questionable reasons knows about the “glass ceiling.”