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.


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).