What’s lost, gained with online internships
April 9, 2020 | By Delece Smith-Barrow
WCER researcher Matthew T. Hora is interviewed in a story about the place of online internships given the restrictions on face-to-face interaction during the COVID-19 outbreak: “A lot depends on who is structuring or designing the experience,” said Matthew Hora, director of the Center for Research on College-Workforce Transitions at the University of Wisconsin. “You can have an in-person internship that’s poorly structured and not very useful or effective or positive for the student. So it’s not as if one modality by default is better than the other.”
COVID-19 and Social Distancing Do Not Need to End College Internships
April 7, 2020 | By Karen Rivedal, WCER Communications
Careful redesign of traditional face-to-face internships can ensure web-based alternatives that are meaningful for students and recent graduates seeking real-world work experience or a bridge to a permanent job during the health crisis.
New At-Home Language Activity Booklet for Young Children Available Online
April 1, 2020 | By Janet L. Kelly
WIDA Early Years is making a new booklet, “Learning Language Every Day: Activities for Families," available free online in English and Español to help children keep learning at home during the COVID-19 outbreak. The booklet can be downloaded for printing and sharing.
WCER’s Gloria Ladson-Billings discusses different schools’ responses to COVID-19
March 30, 2020 | By Jeffrey S. Solochek
University of Wisconsin education professor Gloria Ladson-Billings, president of the National Academy of Education, speaks up for accessibility and equity in education during the COVID-19 crisis.
Working At Home With A Toddler Will Be Chaotic. Here Are Some Tips To Help.
March 27, 2020 | By Elizabeth Dohms-Harter
Wisconsin Public Radio interviewed WIDA Early Day Director Lorena Mancilla on ways to help young children continue to learn at home while schools are closed due to the COVID-19 virus.
New Fulbright Scholar Bob Mathieu Heads to Chile in 2021
March 27, 2020 | By Karen Rivedal, WCER Communications
Bob Mathieu, director of CIRTL at WCER and the Albert A. Whitford Professor of Astronomy at UW-Madison, has received a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award that focuses on his two academic passions—advancing STEM education and studying binary stars—and a goal to grow personally by living abroad for the first time. He hopes to gain more of an international perspective by living life in Chile for three month next year between February and May.
EdNeuroLab Zeroes in on Math Learning
March 26, 2020 | By Lynn Armitage, WCER Communications
In 2012, Edward Hubbard, an assistant professor in UW‒Madison’s Department of Educational Psychology, created the Educational Neuroscience Lab to understand—through functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)—how the physical changes that occur in children’s brains as they learn may help improve education practices.
Tips for families working and learning from home
March 23, 2020 | By NBC15 News
For families with young children, University of Wisconsin-Madison educator and family engagement researcher Lorena Mancilla offers advice on how to create spaces and establish routines for learning and working effectively from home.
Education on the Home Front: How to Keep Young Children Learning in the Early Days of COVID-19
March 20, 2020 | By Janet L. Kelly, WCER Communications
For families with young children, UW–Madison educator, doctoral alum and family engagement researcher Lorena Mancilla has some advice on how to create spaces and establish routines for learning and working effectively from home.
First Analysis of UW System Hmong Undergrads Finds Low & Declining Enrollments, Grad Rates
March 10, 2020 | By Janet L. Kelly, WCER Communications
A team of HMoob (Hmong)* American undergraduates mentored by UW–Madison education researchers in WCER's Center for Research on College to Workforce Transitions has completed the first analysis of University of Wisconsin System student data disaggregated by race and ethnicity for the state’s largest Asian ethnic population.They find that except for UW–Oshkosh and UW–Green Bay, UW System enrollment of HMoob Americans is proportionally low and declining, particularly at the state’s flagship UW–Madison campus.
“Meet Your Immigrant Neighbor” Series Pitched by UW-Madison Researcher Airs this Week
March 9, 2020 | By WCER Communications
Starting today, a television news series pitched by Ruslana Westerlund, a researcher in UW-Madison's School of Education, begins on Madison’s NBC affiliate during its "News at 4" time slot. "Meet Your Immigrant Neighbor” will air at 4:15 p.m. today through March 13, featuring immigrants and the contributions they make to Dane County. Westerlund, who has lived in the United States for 25 years, pitched the interviews to highlight the positive contributions of immigrants and counteract negative rhetoric in the media.
Meet Your Immigrant Neighbor: Ruslana Westerland
March 9, 2020 | By Leigh Mills, Ch. 15 NBC News at 4
All week on Madison's NBC15 News at 4, Leigh Mills is sharing stories of those who have made the United States their home. This video news segment introduces Ruslana Westerlund, a Ukrainian American Educational Researcher at the Wisconsin Center for Education Research, who also suggested the idea to Ch. 15.
Nicholas Hillman: How students and teachers approach college in ‘education deserts’
February 27, 2020 | By Laura Edghill
Sunshine Bible Academy Superintendent and Principal Jason Watson wishes his students had better access to college representatives. The private Christian school in Hand County, S.D., serves 75 students, nearly two-thirds of whom live on campus. The universities within a four- to five-hour driving distance are scattered in different directions, making tours impractical for many families. Sunshine Bible Academy is in what scholar Nicholas Hillman of the University of Wisconsin calls an “education desert.”
Gloria Ladson-Billings announces new inductees to the National Academy of Education
February 27, 2020 | By Annemarie Mountz
Fifteen people nationwide will be elected to the National Academy of Education (NAEd) in 2020. Election to membership in the academy is one of the highest honors accorded to educational researchers by their peers. "This diverse group of scholars are at the forefront of those who are improving the lives of students in the United States and abroad through their outstanding contributions to education scholarship and research," said Gloria Ladson-Billings, president of NAEd, in making the announcement.
Connections, Conversations & Communities: Engaging with the World’s Largest Collection of Type
February 27, 2020
Stephanie Carpenter, a graphic designer and letterpress printer, discusses how she helps facilitate learning through storytelling and hands-on experiences at the Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum. She will share how she fell in love with type and the importance of history, art and design at a working museum. This lecture is part of the Wisconsin Ideas in Education Series, presented by the Early Career Faculty of the School of Education at the University of Wisconsin--Madison with support from the Wisconsin Center for Education Research.
