WIDA in Education Week

March 19, 2013

WIDA is developing a new English-language proficiency exam to measure the language demands of the Common Core State Standards (Education Week, 19 March).


Supporting Dual Language Children

March 18, 2013

Early Dual Language Learners (children, ages birth through 5 years) have been learning more than one language since birth, or begin to learn another language after their home language is partially established.


Mathematics for Social Justice

March 11, 2013

Anita Wager is among educators who explore, develop, research, and/or teach mathematics for social change.


After First Anniversary, WCEPS Looks to the Future

March 4, 2013

When Matt Messinger became the Wisconsin Center for Educational Products and Services’ first executive director in 2011, he knew the nascent organization had the potential to pay great dividends back to the University of Wisconsin.


Raising English Learner Achievement in STEM Subjects

March 4, 2013

Elizabeth Cranley and colleagues at WIDA are helping classroom teachers to make core STEM content accessible to English Learner students (ELs) and to put them on the path to college and career readiness.


More Inclusion than Diversion

March 1, 2013

More than ever before, students have a variety of ways to benefit from higher education.


Gary Cook in Education Week

February 27, 2013

Gary Cook comments on the lack of national agreement for assessing English Learner students (Education Week, 27 Feb).


Programming Standing Up

February 25, 2013

Matthew Berland is developing software and high school curricula to teach engineering programming using mobile devices that will allow students to walk around and interact with each other as they develop programs for virtual robotics competitions.


WCER Hosts 2013 Conference on Engaged Research

February 21, 2013

The Wisconsin Center for Education Research hosted administrators from school districts across the state at its 2013 Conference on Engaged Research on Tuesday, Feb. 19.


Scaling Up Research in Philadelphia

February 19, 2013

A diverse and highly motivated team of educators and researchers met in Philadelphia in early February to begin a scale-up of the Families and Schools Together (FAST) program in Philadelphia Schools.


Virtual Internships Develop Engineering Skills

February 18, 2013

First-year engineering students are engaging in a computer-based virtual internship that simulates engineering professional practice.


Districts Climb to New Gains in WIDA’s LADDER Program

February 15, 2013

Catherine Fox, an English Language Learner (ELL) educator in the Rhode Island public school system, has experienced more than her fair share of professional development programs. Some have been helpful, she said. But most have been painfully frustrating, lacking either a cohesive structure or an adequate follow-through.


He Leaves Wisconsin to Winter in…Norway

February 12, 2013

In the early 1900s his grandparents left Norway to the live in the U.S. More than a century later, Paul Bredeson is back in Norway for a year of sharing about the education systems in both countries.


Sara Goldrick-Rab in The Chronicle

February 11, 2013

Sara Goldrick-Rab writes that, " If money really matters for college degrees, we may be able to find a lot more of it by bridging unreasonable divides between public agencies, reducing paperwork, and repositioning the community college as a point of connection as well as education" (The Chronicle, 11 Feb.).


Collaboration Supports Success in Technology Education

February 11, 2013

Wisconsin is among the nation’s top five manufacturing-intensive states.