Stories indexed under: Education

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  • Instruction expert to parents: Don’t delay school entry Jan. 30, 2008 A UW-Madison professor has found that delaying entry into kindergarten for a year has few positive effects on children.
  • Photo of Halverson Professor helps schools meet the demands of high-stakes accountability Jan. 24, 2008 Richard Halverson, an education leadership and policy analysis professor, is focusing his research on examining how schools are approaching the tough standards established by the federal No Child Left Behind law.
  • Workshop encourages teachers to ‘think like a historian’ Dec. 18, 2007 Teachers seeking to rejuvenate their history curriculum and reinvigorate student learning within a research-based, standards-linked critical-thinking framework will want to register for the seventh annual Wisconsin Treasures workshop, "Thinking Like a Historian," at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
  • UW-Madison explores its global scope during International Education Week Nov. 12, 2007 Whether through study abroad programs, international teaching and research collaborations, language study opportunities, or the thousands of students from around the world who benefit from our campus every year, the University of Wisconsin-Madison is truly a global university.
  • New Web site of K-12 resources launched April 26, 2007 Information on summer sports camps and music clinics, lesson plans on everything from reading to genetics, parenting newsletters, a virtual museum of minerals - these are but a few of more than 250 University of Wisconsin-Madison resources for educators, parents, and students accessible on a new Web site.
  • Center stages bio-education blitz in Madison schools April 25, 2007 The Center for Biology Education was recently honored by the Madison Metropolitan School District with a nomination for a distinguished service award.
  • Portion of information graphic from the story U.S. chemistry forecast: ‘Partly cloudy, chance of showers’ April 25, 2007 A report released this month by the National Academy of Sciences concludes that although the United States currently leads the world in most aspects of chemistry research, increasing international competition makes that position far from secure.
  • Study focuses on closing school achievement gap March 13, 2007 Despite decades of interventions and billions of dollars spent, a large gap in school achievement stubbornly persists between underprivileged children and their more advantaged peers. With funding from the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery seed grant program, UW–Madison scientists will now bring their collective expertise to bear on one important, but overlooked, cause of this troubling problem.
  • UW service helps communities make informed choices on challenged books Feb. 15, 2007 School librarians have an inherently behind-the-scenes profession, but what happens when they are thrust into a very public controversy over a challenged book?