Health and Education: More Schooling Equates to Healthier, Longer Lives
November 1, 2019 | By Karen Rivedal
A critical intersection exists between education and health, according to a consensus of researchers and evaluators from the University of Wisconsin‒Madison who have been working closely with rural schools, the community-school model and Native American communities in Wisconsin.
UW−Madison Mentorship Experts Anchor Federal Push to Diversify Biomedical Workforce
October 31, 2019 | By Karen Rivedal, WCER Communications
UW−Madison will continue to play a leading role in the second and final phase of a sweeping federal investment in better research mentoring, with responsibility for two major grants in the $43 million follow-up push to boost diversity of students, staff and faculty researchers in the biomedical sciences.
Science of Effective Mentoring in STEMM
October 31, 2019 | By Colleen Flaherty
An Inside Higher Ed #Quick Take features the new NAS consensus study on mentorship in STEMM produced by an ad-hoc national committee chaired by WCER investigator Angela Byars-Winston, with CIMER Director Christine Pfund among the dozen committee members.
‘I know I came from greatness’: Son of West High School staffer leads group seeking change
October 27, 2019 | By Logan Wroge
Wisconsin State Journal reporting on aftermath of Marlon Anderson's firing and rehiring at West High School includes account of Anderson speaking to students about the controversy during a session of the MSAN Student Conference Oct. 23-26 in Madison.
MSAN students want more teachers of color in Madison
October 26, 2019 | By Scott Girard
The Capital Times reports on the action-planning portion of the MSAN Student Conference, highlighting Madison-area students' goal to increase diversity in the local teaching ranks.
Local event connects minority students with colleges
October 24, 2019 | By NBC15.com
NBC 15 covers the University Showcase portion of the MSAN Student Conference held in Madison Oct. 23-26, featuring interview with MSAN Executive Director Madeline Hafner at the event.
Conference brings more than 200 to Madison to discuss equity for students of color
October 23, 2019 | By Scott Girard
The Cap Times' Scott Girard spoke with MSAN Executive Director Madeline Hafner about this year's MSAN Student Conference, attended by more than 200 students of color and their chaperones from across the nation to work on equity challenges.
History and Knowledge from Below: Living and Learning Otherwise
October 23, 2019
Targol Mesbah, of the California Institute of Integral Studies, discusses Mexico's Zapatista indigenous peasant movement, which for 25 years has resisted colonial and racialized capitalism by building autonomous communities, councils and schools to create a world in which many worlds fit. She reflects on what lessons the political theory and practice of this leading contemporary social movement can teach those in "otherplaces" about living, learning and teaching during intensifying environmental destruction, political violence, and displacements of human and non-human populations.
UW-Madison researchers receive $1.2M grant to examine decline of early care and education providers
October 22, 2019 | By Todd Finkelmeyer
A team of researchers from UW-Madison, led by Amy Claessens, an associate professor with the School of Education’s Department of Educational Policy Studies and the associate director of the Center for Research on Early Childhood Education (CRECE), secured a $1.2 million grant to partner with the State of Wisconsin to examine a significant decline in the number of regulated early care and education (ECE) providers operating over the past 15 years.
MSAN Student Conference Aims to Empower Next Generation of Equity Leaders
October 22, 2019 | By Karen Rivedal, WCER Communications
More than 200 high school students and their chaperones from 19 U.S. school districts will be in Madison Wednesday through Saturday for the MSAN Student Conference, presented by the UW-Madison School of Education annually to develop student leaders dedicated to ending racial disparities in achievement and opportunity.
Wisconsin Partnership Program Awards $1M to One City Schools and UW-Madison Education Research Team
October 17, 2019 | By Janet L. Kelly
A team of early childhood educators and university evaluators, including WCER's Beth Graue and Tenah Hunt, won a $1 million community impact grant from the Wisconsin Partnership Program at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. The five-year grant will be used to train teachers, document and evaluate Madison’s innovative One City Schools. Graue and Hunt will work with One City to develop and implement a multilayered professional development and evaluation process.
One City Schools Gets $1 Million Grant for Long-term Study on Student Outcomes
October 17, 2019 | By Scott Girard
One City Schools and and UW-Madison researchers Beth Graue and Tenah Hunt of the the School of Education's Wisconsin Center for Education Research will partner in a $1 million grant awarded by the Wisconsin Partnership Program at UW's School of Medicine and Public Health. The grant funds professional development training for all One City teachers and a five-year study of the school's educational methods and student outcomes. Graue and Hunt will develop and implement a rigorous longitudinal evaluation of the school's education approach, including how the school trains staff, engages parents and the larger community, and prepares its young children.
New Wisconsin-Minnesota Education Partnership Wins $6.3M Federal Award
October 16, 2019 | By Janet L. Kelly
A new collaboration of Wisconsin and Minnesota education researchers formed to support education priorities in each state has won a five-year, $6.3 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education. The overall goal of the project, directed by Steven Kimball and WCER colleague Alisia Moutry, as well as the University of Minnesota's Kim Gibbons and Education Analytics' Ernest Morgan, is to improve the academic achievement of elementary and secondary school students in the two-state region by advancing the use of evidence-based practices.
Supporting Teacher Emotional Health: Reducing Stress and/or Improving Well-Being
October 11, 2019
Nathaniel von der Embse shares insights from a series of studies across states, throughout a school year, and within a school day highlighting the conflicting influences of stress and well-being on teacher burnout and instructional practices. He will highlight implications for supporting teacher emotional health.
Fair Pay To Play Hailed As Game-Changer
October 10, 2019 | By Roscoe Nance
WCER's Jerlando Jackson, chief research scientist for Wei LAB and a former track and field athlete at the University of Virginia who walked on but eventually earned a scholarship, discusses implications of new California law creating legal right for that state's college athletes to be paid for use of their identities starting in 2023.
