Improving Outcomes for Students with Disabilities

August 20, 2012

Exposure to poverty during childhood and adolescence predicts lower student achievement and higher dropout rates.


When Teaching Decisions Collide with Organizational Norms

August 15, 2012

Professionals in social marketing, public health, and applied anthropology frequently base behavior-change initiatives in a solid understanding of local practice.


Kurt Squire and Richard Davidson in the Epoch Times

August 14, 2012

Kurt Squire and Richard Davidson are developing two educational games: One to cultivate attention and the other to cultivate empathy, kindness, and pro-social behavior (the Epoch Times, 14 August).


Social Justice in Positive Behavioral Interventions

August 13, 2012

A new project directed by Aydin Bal is working to (a) form socially positive, academically rich, and inclusive school cultures in Wisconsin schools and to (b) transform the state-level policy and practices that exclude or marginalize students from non-majority families.


Sara Goldrick-Rab in The Chronicle

August 8, 2012

Sara Goldrick-Rab says The Pell Grant has a public-relations problem (The Chronicle, 8 August).


Implementing Interventions in Schools

August 6, 2012

About 6% of school-aged children exhibit disruptive behaviors that cause problems in the classroom


Building Capacity for Special Education in Turkey

August 6, 2012

Special education students in Turkey are benefiting from a collaboration between Kimber Wilkerson and two former graduate students in the department of Rehabilitation Psychology and Special Education.


Matching Strategies for Observational Studies with Multilevel Data

July 30, 2012

Peter Steiner has received support from the Institute of Education Sciences to develop a theoretical background for matching designs and techniques with observational multilevel data and to derive guidelines for educational researchers who have already started using multilevel matching techniques in their analyses.


How Students Become Politically Involved

July 23, 2012

Adolescence is an important time for the development of political identity and engagement. Political experiences during this phase of life shape future engagement


Mark Connolly on insidehighered.com

July 19, 2012

Mark Connolly comments on changing trends in doctoral students' career paths (insidehighered.com, 19 July).


Adam Gamoran on Madison.com

July 19, 2012

Adam Gamoran says student achievement scores show that Wisconsin has a "long way to go in all our racial/ethnic groups" (Madison.com, 19 July).


Sara Goldrick-Rab on PBS Learning Matters

July 17, 2012

Sara Goldrick-Rab is among discussants on the importance of community colleges (PBS Learning Matters, 17 July).


Adam Gamoran on Madison.com

July 17, 2012

Adam Gamoran says recalibrated student achievement results released by the Department of Public Instruction offer a more honest reckoning of where Wisconsin students stand relative to other students across the nation (Madison.com, 17 July).


Building Family Engagement in Title I Schools

July 17, 2012

On Aug. 23 Professors Adam Gamoran and Lynn McDonald will present preliminary results from a federally funded study on systematically building social capital in Title I schools.


Using Research to Narrow Gaps

July 15, 2012

African-American, Latino, and other students of color have much poorer odds of succeeding in public schools than do their White counterparts. But those odds can be improved.