Finding new ways to teach powerful mathematical ideas is an urgent societal objective.  The mathematics of space and motion is a domain that has wide-ranging relevance for what children need to learn in school.

Students are more likely to succeed in school when their families, neighbors, and schools work together to provide a rich support network.

Beginning in January, WCER director Adam Gamoran will serve as interim Dean of the School of Education while current dean Julie Underwood serves as interim university Provost. Beth Graue, professor of curriculum and instruction and WCER’s director of graduate training, will serve as interim director of WCER.

Sharon Derry and colleagues are supporting the practice and development of science, mathematics, engineering, and technology (STEM) teachers using the Video Mosaic Collaboratory.

Recent research by Martha Alibali and colleagues has found that gestures accompanying speech are involved with more than general memory demands.

Work remains to be done on continuing to develop teachers to be effective educators.

A course helps teachers to shift their focus from examinations of their own mathematical practices to identifying instances of students’ algebraic thinking.

Digital learning environments provide the potential to assess perfromance in context. But what assessment methods will use this data?

Graduate students and post-docs in CIRTL Network institutions are taking online courses this fall.

Eric Camburn and colleagues recently examined three aspects of principals' priorities and practice.

Papers by Catherine Compton-Lilly, and William H. Clune and Paula A.White are featured in the WCER Working Papers Series.

Staff in WCER's Value-Added Research Center have contributed resources to the new Web site of the Center for Educator Compensation Reform.

The WCER Working Paper Series features two new papers by Jane Cooley.

The 19-state WIDA Consortium has received a grant to develop the first English-language-proficiency test designed for learners who have severe disabilities.

The CIRTL Network is training graduate students to detect what undergraduates are really learning in science courses, and where their conceptual errors lie.

The MMSD Math Task Force Report has been released. This report, entitled Madison Metropolitan School District Mathematics Task Force Report: Review of Mathematics Curriculum and Related Issues is available as a PDF download.

Efforts to change the culture of teaching and learning in college-level departments of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) should focus on illuminating, and then shifting the local cultural schema.

WCER research Francois Tochon is helping Yildiz Technical University in Istanbul to integrate European standards for higher education into its institutional culture.

Christine Pribbenow has been chosen to evaluate the national Biology Scholars Program.

Instructors in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics can become the agents for change through a process called teaching-as-research.

A new Working Paper by Timothy Grant and Mitchell J. Nathan examines two competing metaphors for confidence intervals and their impact on understanding, statistical problem solving, and future learning of mathematics.

WCER was founded 44 years ago this month.

A new WCER project, Social Capital and Children's Development, measures the effects of social capital on the cognitive and social development of children in the early elementary years.

WCER's funding sources represent a broad mix of federal, private, state, and district level funding agencies.

One of WCER's strengths is the interdisciplinary nature of its work.

The quality of teaching and learning in K-12 classrooms can be improved through the strategic managment of human capital in public school districts.

Anthony Milanowski reports the results of a study using information from the U.S. Department of Labor's O*NET occupational information database to identify occupations comparable to K-12 teaching..

A recent curriculum analysis finds that the Project Lead the Way curriculum addresses far fewer mathematic content and process standards when compared to academic curricula.

A new WCER Working Paper explores partnerships between K–12 school districts and higher education institutions.

A new WCER Working Paper explores partnerships between K–12 school districts and higher education institutions.

WCER welcomes 3 new projects into the family.

Variable pay, also often called incentive pay, or pay for results, aims to provide an incentive for teachers and principals to act in ways that contribute to organizational success.

Innovative teacher compensation strategies seek to encourage and reward three major teacher behaviors.

This country's evolving demographic landscape demands that STEM leaders address equity and diversity in mathematics education.

Geoffrey Borman and Adam Gamoran are testing experimentally the impact on student achievement of a content-rich, systemic intervention in teacher development for elementary school science.

A new Working Paper provides guidance on how states might establish benchmarks for progress in annual measurable achivement objectives and English attainment policies.

A new project within the Consortium for Policy Research in Education (CPRE) seeks to improve the quality of teaching and learning in K-12 classrooms by improving the strategic management of human capital in public school districts.

Over the past decade WCER's Value-Added Research Center has collaborated with the Milwaukee Public Schools.

The National Science Foundation's National Endeavor project seeks to reenergize science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education in U.S. colleges and universities.

The WIDA project welcomes South Dakota as the 17th state to adopt ACCESS for ELLs.

Eric Knuth and colleagues are editing a book on teaching and learning mathematical proofs at different grade levels.

Print copies of the WIDA English Language Proficience Standards and Recourse Guide, 2007 Edition, are now available.

Several dissertations have been completed in WCER's Interdisciplinary Training Program in Education Sciences.

Surveys are commonly used to measure instruction in education research. Authors Eric Camburn and Seong Won Han have identified critical gaps in research from the last 20 years.

Educators in many districts are challeneged to adapt instruction for students who are English Language Learners (ELLs).

WCER and the Council of Chief State School Officers are collaborating to improve methods of analyzing the alignment of instruction to assessments and standards for English Language Learners.

As much as possible, school districts seek to allocate their resources so that they link to improved student achivement.

A new study seeks to reframe engineering education as a set of developmental experiences that could attract more people, and a more diverse group of people, into the engineering profession.

The SCALE mathematics and science partnership has posted a new progress report and an evaluator's report.

Recent calls to improve preservice teacher education have prompted policymakers and others to rethink models of instructional improvement and teacher preparation.

Reaching All Students: A Resource Book for Teaching in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) contains a wealth of articles for instructors in STEM fields.