New Wisconsin-Minnesota Education Partnership Wins $6.3M Federal Award
October 16, 2019 | By Janet L. Kelly
A new collaboration of Wisconsin and Minnesota education researchers formed to support education priorities in each state has won a five-year, $6.3 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education. The overall goal of the project, directed by Steven Kimball and WCER colleague Alisia Moutry, as well as the University of Minnesota's Kim Gibbons and Education Analytics' Ernest Morgan, is to improve the academic achievement of elementary and secondary school students in the two-state region by advancing the use of evidence-based practices.
Supporting Teacher Emotional Health: Reducing Stress and/or Improving Well-Being
October 11, 2019
Nathaniel von der Embse shares insights from a series of studies across states, throughout a school year, and within a school day highlighting the conflicting influences of stress and well-being on teacher burnout and instructional practices. He will highlight implications for supporting teacher emotional health.
Fair Pay To Play Hailed As Game-Changer
October 10, 2019 | By Roscoe Nance
WCER's Jerlando Jackson, chief research scientist for Wei LAB and a former track and field athlete at the University of Virginia who walked on but eventually earned a scholarship, discusses implications of new California law creating legal right for that state's college athletes to be paid for use of their identities starting in 2023.
“No, Wisconsin!”
October 10, 2019 | By Gloria Ladson-Billings
WCER's Gloria Ladson-Billings sounds off on the UW Homecoming video and campus climate for students of color.
Examining Relationships Between Group Hierarchy and Racial Identity Attitudes
October 9, 2019
Malik Boykin, Presidential Diversity Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Cognitive, Linguistic and Psychological Science at Brown University, researches intergroup relations, mentorship, prejudice and racial identity. He is working to publish a manuscript based on his dissertation, which demonstrates several psychological processes associated with endorsing negative stereotypes about Historically Black Colleges and Universities.
This event is part of the Wisconsin Ideas in Education Lecture Series, an interdisciplinary speaker series intended for educators and future educators across campus. It is organized by early career faculty members from UW-Madison’s School of Education, with support from the Wisconsin Center for Education Research.
Examining Relationships Between Group Hierarchy and Racial Identity Attitudes Video
October 9, 2019
Malik Boykin, presidential diversity postdoctoral fellow at Brown University, researches intergroup relations, mentorship, prejudice and racial identity. He is working to publish a manuscript based on his dissertation, which demonstrates several psychological processes associated with endorsing negative stereotypes about Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs).
WCER Experts Explain Critical Intersection between Education, Health
October 8, 2019 | By Karen Rivedal, WCER Communications
University researchers and evaluators versed in rural schools, the community-school model and the schooling of Native American children in Wisconsin shared their expertise and latest evidence-based findings recently in a public hearing at the state Capitol focused on the critical intersection between education and health.
MSAN Student Conference Aims to Empower
October 8, 2019 | By WCER Communications
The annual gathering, now in its 20th year, aims to develop student leaders dedicated to ending racial disparities in achievement and opportunity.
(Auto)Ethnographic Perspectives on the College-Workforce Transition for Anthropology Majors
October 1, 2019
Daniel Ginsberg, manager of education, research and professional development at the American Athropoological Association and anthropologist in residence at American University, will discuss (auto)ethnographic perspectives on the college-to-workforce transition for anthropology majors. This is part of the Center for Research on College-to-Workforce Transitions (CCWT) Fall 2019 Seminar Series, co-sponsored by the UW-Madison Department of Anthropology, American Anthropological Association and the Wisconsin Center for Education Research.
Report: Perfect attendance would have ‘very modest’ effect on Madison middle school achievement gap
September 25, 2019 | By Logan Wroge
The Wisconsin State Journal covers implications of new research from WCER's Madison Education Partnership into signals sent by middle school student absences in the Madison School District.
Middle School Absences Send Important Signal
September 25, 2019 | By Madison Education Partnership
A new report from the Madison Education Partnership finds that rather than causing students to do poorly in school, unexcused absences may be signals of significant challenges in students’ lives.
Internships as a High-Impact Practice?
September 23, 2019 | By Matthew T. Hora
Matthew T. Hora argues in Inside Higher Ed that colleges and universities should proceed with caution before they encourage or even require students to take them.
WCER launches $1.5 million study of 6 Historically Black Colleges and Universities
September 20, 2019 | By NBC15 staff
A new collaboration between WCER, the United Negro College Fund and UW-Madison's Counseling Psychology Department will study internship programs at six Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) with a high number of STEM graduates.
WCER launches $1.5 million internship study of six Historically Black Colleges and Universities
September 19, 2019 | By Lynn Armitage
The Center for Research on College to Workforce Transitions (CCWT)—a project at UW‒Madison’s Wisconsin Center for Education Research—is collaborating with the United Negro College Fund’s Career Pathways Initiative and a vocational psychologist to study internship programs at six HBCUs (Historically Black Colleges and Universities) that have a high population of STEM graduates.
UW professor says teaching is most important part of professor’s job
September 17, 2019 | By Molly DeVore
The Badger Herald reports on a talk by WCER researcher Harry Brighouse, a philosophy professor, on strengthening education outcomes as a part of the Wisconsin Idea, Past and Present lecture series.
