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.).


Larger Ethnic Diversity Can Benefit Students

September 16, 2013

High schools that have large, rather than small or moderate, amounts of ethnic diversity can have positive effects on students' peer experiences.


Allan Odden on GrandForksHerald.com

September 11, 2013

Allan Odden gives the North Dakota Legislature an A-plus for its work in providing adequate and equitable funding to K-12 public schools (GrandForksHerald.com, 11 Sept.).


WCER Graduate Students Present Research Projects

September 10, 2013

The Department of Educational Psychology’s First-Year Poster Presentation featured several posters by graduate students of WCER researchers.


WIDA Researchers Bring Language Testing Ideas to South Korea and Saipan

September 9, 2013

Creating tests for students is a tricky business under any circumstances. When the students taking the test aren’t native speakers of the language the test is in, the task gets quite a bit more complicated.


Behavioral Support Should be Culturally Responsive

September 3, 2013

A practice called Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) aims to help students—and schools—by offering a supportive and predictable school-wide social and academic environment.


Retention and Attainment at Minority-Serving Institutions

September 3, 2013

Clifton Conrad and colleague Marybeth Gasman (University of Pennsylvania) identify and elevate exemplars of student success at minority serving institutions.


Gary Cook in Education Week

August 30, 2013

WIDA's Gary Cook helped write national recommendations for states to use when identifying and helping English Language Learners (Education Week, 30 August).


Mitchell Nathan in the Washington Post

August 27, 2013

Mitchell Nathan comments on the most and least effective study techniques (Washington Post, 27 Aug.).