In the News

Recent media coverage of School of Education faculty, staff and students

David Williamson Shaffer (WCER) discusses how epistemic games place children in the role of a professional and encourage them to think in an innovative way.
Elburn Herald, January 11, 2008
http://www.elburnherald.com/features2008/gametime1001.asp

Professor Allan Odden (WCER) discusses challenges of creating performance assessment systems in the article "Advancing Pay for Performance."
Education Week, January 10, 2008
http://www.edweek.org/search.html?qs=allan+odden

Madison was the only Wisconsin school district to win a grant from the U.S. Department of Education's Teaching American History program, which aims to improve the training of teachers. WCER’s Shihmei Barger is evaluation researcher for this 3-year project.
Wisconsin State Journal, January 4, 2008
http://www.madison.com/wsj/home/local/index.php?ntid=265460

The Minority Student Achievement Network, which makes its home at WCER, is mentioned among Strategic Education Research Partnerships that work to build "coherent, use-inspired programs of research."
Education Week, December 12, 2007, p. 19

Dr. Robert Enright, educational psychology professor, discusses the psychology of forgiveness and is called "the father of forgiveness research."
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, December 8, 2007
http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=694625

William Morgan, emeritus professor of kinesiology, discusses the use of dissociation in order to maximize athletic performance.
The New York Times, December 6, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/06/health/nutrition/06Best.html?pagewanted=1&ei=5070&en=50e0ada6c54a0f4a&ex=1197608400&emc=eta1

Douglas Harris, WCER staff member, and colleague Tim R. Sass's recent study of Board Certified Teachers is cited.
St. Petersburg Times, December 5, 2007
http://www.sptimes.com/2007/12/05/State/Florida_teachers_earn.shtml

Terry Millar, WCER Professor and Project Director and PI of the SCALE (System-Wide Change for All Learners and Educators) program, discusses the project's work nationwide in preparing future teachers and providing professional development opportunities for teachers in mathematics and science.
Wisconsin State Journal, December 4, 2007
http://www.madison.com/wsj/home/column/other/index.php?ntid=260273&ntpid=2

Patricia Burch (WCER) discusses the lack of scrutiny in holding private firms accountable for achievement improvements under NCLB.
Education Week, November 28, 2007
http://www.edweek.org/search.html?qs=patricia+burch

Mary Ann Zehr describes the World-Class Instructional Design and Assessment Consortium (housed in WCER) work in her Learning the Language blog.
Education Week, November 20, 2007
http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/learning-the-language/2007/11/who_is_first_in_creating_presc.html

Professor Allan Odden (WCER) discusses school-wide team-building efforts that reward teachers and school staffs for student gains through a combination of adequate base pay, rewards for professional improvement and bonuses for student achievement gains
Delaware Online, November 11, 2007
http://www.delawareonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071111/NEWS/711110338/1008/NEWS03&theme=LEGHALL

Data from the recent CEW report on the status of pre-engineering education in Wisconsin is cited in an editorial on the statewide need for engineering innovation.
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, November 10, 2007
http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=684492

WCER Director Adam Gamoran's new book, Standards-Based Reform and the Poverty Gap, is reviewed.
Education Week, November 8, 2007
http://www.edweek.org

WISCAPE Director Noel Radomski discusses the Wisconsin Covenant program.
WKOW, November 5, 2007
http://wkow.madison.com/News/index.php?ID=16180

WISCAPE Director Noel Radomski discusses the Wisconsin Covenant program and the recent $40 million pledge by the Great Lakes Higher Education Corporation.
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, November 1, 2007
http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=681637

WCER's World Class Instructional Design and Assessment consortium (WIDA) and its Access for ELLs assessment are mentioned in the special report "ELL Testing: A state of flux" .
District Administration, October 2007
http://www.districtadministration.com/viewarticle.aspx?articleid=1293

Director Adam Gamoran (WCER) comments on a pair of studies measuring the degree to which NCLB pressures educators to focus on students who fall just below the passing threshold on state tests—at the expense of students at the high and low ends of the achievement spectrum.
Education Week, October 31, 2007
http://www.edweek.org

Professor Allan Odden (WCER) calls "significant" New York City's plan to give cash bonuses to teachers at some of the city's high-need schools that raise student test scores.
Education Week, October 24, 2007
http://www.edweek.org

Assistant Professor Sara Goldrick-Rab (Department of Educational Policy Studies) discusses the difficulties students face when trying to pay their own way through college.
Daily Cardinal, October 22, 2007
http://www.dailycardinal.com/article/777

Assistant Professor Eric Camburn (Educational Leadership & Policy Studies) and Professor Alan Odden (WCER and Department of Educational Leadership & Policy Analysis) discuss neighborhood schools, social capital, and the politics of closing schools.
Wisconsin State Journal, October 21, 2007
http://www.madison.com/wsj/home/local/index.php?ntid=252354&ntpid=2

WISCAPE Faculty Affiliate David Weerts is interviewed on College Connections about funding trends.
College Connections, October 20, 2007
http://www.okhighered.org/college-connection/archives/CC-10-20-07.wma

Noel Radomski, WISCAPE managing director, is quoted in a story about universities and minority enrollment.
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, October 16, 2007
http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=675649

Noel Radomski, WISCAPE managing director, is quoted in a story about state funding for colleges and universities.
The Badger Herald, October 12, 2007
http://badgerherald.com/news/2007/10/12/expert_educators_deb.php

WISCAPE researcher Justin M. Ronca discusses state spending on higher education.
Inside Higher Ed, October 11, 2007
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2007/10/11/spending

Professor Allan Odden (WCER and Department of Educational Leadership & Policy Analysis) is quoted in a story about growing momentum for alternate teacher pay systems.
Education Week, September 27, 2007
http://www.edweek.org/search.html?qs=allan+odden

Diana Hess discusses how teaching controversial issues like 9/11 can put pressure on teachers to give different emphases to issues like civil liberties vs. patriotism.
Denver Post, September 11, 2007
http://test.denverpost.com/ci_6856814

Professor Allan Odden (WCER and Department of Educational Leadership & Policy Analysis) comments on Chicago becoming the nation's largest school district to offer teachers performance-based pay.
Chicago Sun Times, September 4, 2007
http://www.suntimes.com/news/education/540795,CST-NWS-backtoskul04.article

Professor Allan Odden (WCER and Department of Educational Leadership & Policy Analysis) and Lawrence Picus (University of Southern California in Los Angeles) write in Education Week that "Simply finding enough money to adequately fund a state’s schools does not solve the school finance problem. An equally difficult challenge is structuring a school finance system to support these evidence-based resource allocation strategies."
Education Week, August 15, 2007
http://www.edweek.org/search.html?qs=allan+odden

Geoffrey Borman's (WCERand Department of Educational Leadership & Policy Analysis) study of summer learning loss is cited in the context of the growing popularity of summer programs in public schools.
Lower Hudson Online, August 10, 2007
http://www.thejournalnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070810/NEWS08/708100313/1024/NEWS08

WISCAPE emeritus affiliate Jacob Stampen discusses the rise of block voting in the Wisconsin State Legislature as one reason for public policy lull.
WisOpinion.com, August 7, 2007
http://wisopinion.com/index.iml?mdl=article.mdl&article=9333

Assistant Professor Sara Goldrick-Rab (Department of Educational Policy Studies) discusses the cost of college tuition and how first-generation college students cope.
Wisconsin State Journal, August 5, 2007
http://www.madison.com/wsj/topstories/index.php?ntid=204284&ntpid=1

WCER researcher Susan Millar discusses science and engineering education and the challenges of scaling up reform programs.
Chronicle of Higher Education, August 3, 2007
http://chronicle.com/free/v53/i48/48a01601.htm

WCER's Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching, and Learning (CIRTL) is called the "principal effort" in the nationwide attempt to train the next generation of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics faculty members to use new teaching methods including student-centered teaching.
Chronicle of Higher Education, August 3, 2007
http://chronicle.com/free/v53/i48/48a01601.htm

WISC-TV editorial director Neil Heinen applauds graduates of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute, and recognizes the efforts of community leaders, such as Professor Gloria Ladson-Billings (Department of Curriculum and Instruction), for the institute’s success.
WISC-TV, Madison, August 2, 2007 (Scroll down to the August 2 entry)
http://www.c3ktogo.com/news-video/?section=4

Kathleen Horning, director of the Children’s Cooperative Book Center (CCBC), comments on children’s books with a political slant on a recent CNN segment, “Political Bedtime Stories.”
The Paula Zahn Show, July 31, 2007
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/politics/2007/07/31/rowlands.bedtime.story.cnn

Jocelyn Milner and Clare Huhn's WISCAPE Policy Brief The Impact of Cost-Containment Proposals Associated with the Reauthorization of the Higher Education Act attracted national attention in Inside Higher Ed.
Inside Higher Ed, July 19, 2007
http://insidehighered.com/news/2007/07/19/costs

David Woods's Transana project is reviewed by Jill-Hurst Wall of Syracuse University and Hurst Associates, Ltd. Woods is an associate researcher at WCER.
Digitization 101, July 19 2007
http://hurstassociates.blogspot.com/2007/07/transana-for-analyzing-digital-video-or.html

Norman Webb's 'depth of knowledge' framework is discussed in the context of the Mississippi Department of Education. Webb is a senior research scientist at WCER.
Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, July 19, 2007
http://www.djournal.com/pages/story.asp?ID=247050&pub=1&div=News

Timothy Boals, WCER associate scientist, says English Language Learners need a curriculum that goes far beyond teaching pronunciation and grammar to make their content classes more comprehensible.
Education Week, July 18, 2007
http://www.edweek.org/search.html?qs=boals

Geoffrey Borman (professor, Department of Educational Leadership & Policy Analysis) discusses the value of keeping students' minds engaged through the summer and recommends giving students activities to reinforce the lessons they learned during the regular school year.
Wisconsin State Journal, July 14, 2007
http://www.madison.com/wsj/home/local/index.php?ntid=201375

UW-Madison's PEOPLE program, housed in the School of Education, is praised in a Milwaukee Journal Sentinel editorial emphasizing the benefits of a relationship forged between public education and the private sector.
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, July 3, 2007
http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=627526

School of Education Dean Julie Underwood and Gloria Ladson-Billings, the Kellner Family Professor of Urban Education in the Department of Curriculum & Instruction, discuss the challenges of returning in-demand professors and researchers.
Wisconsin State Journal, July 1, 2007
http://www.madison.com/archives/read.php?ref=/wsj/2007/07/01/0707010225.php

School of Education Dean Julie Underwood says that the No Child Left Behind Act is failing when it comes to providing the constructive feedback necessary to help schools improve.
Wisconsin State Journal, June 29
http://www.madison.com/wsj/home/column/other/index.php?ntid=199403&ntpid=1

Associate Professor David Williamson Shaffer (Department of Educational Psychology) and colleagues in the learning sciences area provide a summer experience for middle school students that mixes virtual and real worlds of urban planning.
Capital Times (Madison), June 26
http://www.madison.com/archives/read.php?ref=/tct/2007/06/26/0706260193.php

Radio program host Joy Cardin and Professor Allan Odden (Department of Educational Leadership & Policy Analysis) discuss how states are experimenting with merit pay for teachers and giving bonuses for raising student achievement and for reaching other goals.
Wisconsin Public Radio, June 20
http://wpr.org/webcasting/audioarchives_display.cfm?Code=jca

The Families and Schools Together (FAST) program, developed by Dr. Lynn McDonald (Wisconsin Center for Education Research) is the cover story for the current issue of the American School Board Journal, June 2007.
http://www.asbj.com/current/coverstory.html

A study by Professor Allan Odden (Department of Educational Leadership & Policy Analysis) and colleague Lawrence Picus finds that Wyoming schools devote a significant portion of their money to raising teacher salaries rather than hiring more educators.
Education Week, June 20
http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2007/06/20/43wyoming_web.h26.html

Willie Ney, director of the Office of Multicultural Arts Initiatives, discusses a workshop for teachers and community leaders on using hip-hop in the classroom.
Capital Times, June 16
http://www.madison.com/archives/read.php?ref=/tct/2007/06/16/0706160323.php

Professor Beth Graue (Department of Curriculum and Insturction) is among early childhood experts on school readiness interviewed on the radio program, The State of Things.
WUNC radio, Chapel Hill, NC, June 13
http://wunc.org/tsot/archive/sot0613a.mp3/view

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