A new alliance co-lead by CIRTL will improve STEM college-level teaching with the goal of increasing underrepresented students in STEM majors and professions.
A new study finds that occupations typically requiring more than high school but less than a bachelor’s degree, such as maintenance and repair workers, account for 16% of all U.S. jobs, much lower than previous estimates.
Read about the latest research on these hot topics and more in the summer issue of ForwardED.
Have you heard of ALTELLA? It’s a new project at WCER that helps states develop federally mandated assessments for English language learners with significant cognitive disabilities, a K-12 population largely overlooked in the U.S.
Learn what Madison Education Partnership researchers discovered about excused and unexcused absences in Madison’s public schools.
WIES Lecture: The Softening of Stone: Collaborative Acts of Transformation
Anna Riley, Artist and Educator
WIES Lecture Featuring Jenny Seelig
Jenny Seelig, Associate Researcher, Wisconsin Center for Education Research
WIES Lecture Featuring Kara Viesca
Kara Viesca, Associate Professor, Teaching, Learning & Teacher Education, University of Nebraska
Diverse Issues in Higher Education, Sep 20
UW-Madison School of Education, Sep 20
WCER Communications, Sep 13
The Daily Cardinal, Sep 11
Madison365, Sep 11
WISC-TV, Sep 11
Jaymes Pyne and Eric Grodsky , August 2018
Jaymes Pyne and Eric Grodsky, August 2018
"Culturally Responsive Indigenous Evaluation and Tribal Governments: Understanding the Relationship" Waapalaneexkweew (Nicole Bowman) and Carolee Dodge‐Francis, New Directions in Evaluation, 2018.
“Advancing Equity and Diversity in Student Affairs: A Festschrift in Honor of Melvin C. Terrell,” edited by Jerlando F.L. Jackson, LaVar J. Charleston and Cornelius Gilbert. Includes introduction by Jerlando F. L. Jackson and chapter by Devon Wilson, 2018.
“Cultural Capital at Work: How Cognitive and Noncognitive Skills are Taught, Trained and Rewarded in a Chinese Technical College,” Matthew T. Hora and Chelsea A. Blackburn Cohen, Community College Review, 2018.
Peter Wardrip (PI) was awarded $240,568 by the National Science Foundation for the project "EAGER: MAKER: Enhanced learing through making by way of personalized content for animation and fabrication" through 2019.
Percival Matthews, Martha Alibali and Ana Stephens (co-PIs) were awarded $670,986 by the National Science Foundation for the project "Cultivating Knowledge of Mathematical Equivalence" through 2021.
David Gagnon (PI) was awarded $106,600 by the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction for the project "Field Day Lab - Year 5 Funding" through 2019.
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