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.
