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READ MORE > STUDENTS FIND FINAL PROJECTS ‘MOST BENEFICIAL’ FOR STATE-REQUIRED ACADEMIC, CAREER PLANS The latest evaluation by WCER's Wisconsin Evaluation Collaborative (WEC) cites popular best practices such as final projects and job shadowing amid increased ACP participation. READ MORE > Assessments for the Overlooked A new $4 million award from the U.S. Department of Education focuses on an often neglected population of students who are challenged by significant cognitive disabilities as well as a lack of English language skills. With this funding, WIDA, a leading support organization for multilingual learners, educator and families, will develop alternative English language assessments for grades K-12. Read more > Gear Learning Launches ‘Newt’s Voyage’ To Teach Basic Physics Via Virtual Spacecraft With a game that's easy to pick up but hard to master, the educational game development studio at WCER helps players use active learning to understand the laws of motion and gravity. READ MORE > What’s Right With Rural Nineteen STEM teachers from eighteen rural school districts in Wisconsin attended the third annual Teacher Speakout! sponsored by WCER’s Rural Education Research & Implementation Center (RERIC). This exchange of ideas between teachers, researchers, policymakers and rural advocates offered insight on what is right with rural education. READ MORE > SERVICES FOR: Researchers Campus Educators Grad Students Funders Community Media Employees EVENTS CALENDAR Mar 11, 5:00 pm COVID-19 Notice All campus events are canceled beginning 5 p.m., Friday, March 13, through at least April 10, with limited exceptions to be granted by deans or vice chancellors. , Mar 12, 10 am - 1:00 pm CANCELLED | UW–Madison Education Research Poster Fair Jessica Stovall , PhD student in Race Inequality and Language in Education program, Stanford University Mar 12, Noon - 1pm CANCELLED FOR PUBLIC: The Power of Humanizing Pedagogy on Minoritized Youth Jessica Stovall , PhD student in Race Inequality and Language in Education program, Stanford University Mar 13, 12 - 1:30 pm CANCELLED | What Drives Racial/Ethnic Disparities in School Discipline? Jayanti Owens , Assistant Professor of Psychology, International and Public Affairs, Brown University Mar 23, 12 - 1 pm CANCELLED | Carl A. Grant Scholars Lecture | March 23, 2020 Zandra de Araujo , Associate Professor, University of Missouri College of Education NEWS First Analysis of UW System Hmong Undergrads Finds Low & Declining Enrollments, Grad Rates WCER Communications, Mar 10 “Meet Your Immigrant Neighbor” Series Pitched by UW-Madison Researcher Airs this Week WCER Communications, Mar 9 Meet Your Immigrant Neighbor: Ruslana Westerland News at 4, Ch. 15 NBC, Madison, WI, Mar 9 Nicholas Hillman: How students and teachers approach college in ‘education deserts’ Feb 27 Gloria Ladson-Billings announces new inductees to the National Academy of Education Feb 27 Connections, Conversations & Communities: Engaging with the World’s Largest Collection of Type Feb 27 PUBLICATIONS "From Borsch to Burgers: A Cross-Cultural Memoir," Ruslana Westerlund, 2019. WCER Working Paper: A New Evaluation Approach for Teacher Preparation Programs Using Labor Market Competitiveness of Teacher Applicants Peter Goff, Hyunwoo Yang, Minseok Yang, Lena Batt, Xin Xie, and Eunji You, March 2020 WCER Working Paper: How, If at All, Does Industry Experience Influence how Faculty Teach Cognitive, Inter-, and Intrapersonal Skills in the College Classroom? Matthew T. Hora and Changhee Lee, March 2020 "The Effects of Doctoral Teaching Development on Early-Career STEM Scholars’ College Teaching Self-efficacy," Mark R. Connolly, You-Geon Lee, Julia N. Savoy, CBE-Life Sciences Education, Spring 2018 "Building a Better Future STEM Faculty | How Teaching Development Programs Can Improve Undergraduate Education," Mark R. Connolly, Julia N. Savoy, You-Geon Lee, Lucas B. Hill, 2016. NEW GRANTS Timothy Boals has received a grant of $131,074 from the U.S. Department of Education, in a subaward from Lower Kuskokwim School District, for "Developing Culturally Responsive Native Language Assessment Systems - Year 4" through July 31, 2020. Brian Burt has been awarded $423,141 from the National Science Foundation for "CAREER: Leveraging Learning and Engineering Identity to Broaden Participation of Black Males in Colleges of Engineering" through July 31, 2022. Tim Tansey has received a grant of $375,000 from the Administration for Community Living/DHHS, in a subaward from Virginia Commonwealth University, for "Rehabilitation Research and Training Center (RRTC) on Employment of Transition-Age Youth with Disabilities" through Sept. 29, 2024. 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