Gloria Ladson-Billings, Sara Goldrick-Rab, Adam Gamoran, John Witte and Geoffrey Borman included in list at Education Week.
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A poll recently found that two-thirds of Americans hadn’t heard of Common Core, and that’s unfortunate because it leaves the door open for those at the extreme ends of the political spectrum to step into the information vacuum.
Then there's the question of whether the new teacher evaluations will produce data that's any more useful than that produced by the old, largely pro forma teacher evaluations.
If not for the fact that Wisconsin’s voucher program hasn’t yet been the fix for whatever combination of poverty, social dysfunction and quest…
Six schools will be downgraded to a lower category after the Madison School District revised incorrect attendance figures.
Madison teachers and students will deal with new curriculum, evaluations and school ratings.
Wisconsin students learned a valuable lesson this week — one that's rarely taught in school: It's all relative.
Only a third of students in the state received proficient or better scores on the state reading test, and less than half were proficient on the state math test, based on recalculated results released Tuesday.
The Madison School District's four-year graduation rate gap between black and white students closed five percentage points from 2010 to 2011, though the rate for black students remains about 50 percent.
The ink on Madison School superintendent Dan Nerad's resignation letter is barely dry and already the hand-wringing over finding his replacement has begun.
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Following the alleged sexual assault of a student by an athletic official after a night of drinking at the Rose Bowl, UW-Madison Chancellor Da…
The Janesville Gazette reported last week that principals at some of the city's public elementary school are attributing some major positive academic and behavioral trends to a relatively minor change: moving recess from after to before lunch.
A report from the Wisconsin Policy Research Institute says rewarding educators in high-performing schools makes sense, but several UW-Madison researchers argue that the proposal has its flaws.
Four UW-Madison professors earned recognition from Education Week blogger Rick Hess as being among the top 50 most influential education scho…
Last week I wrote that it seemed hypocritical that average Madisonians and other liberals haven't been beating the drum for proposed charter school Madison Preparatory Academy. But it took a reader to point out an even bigger elephant in this oddly somnolent room: UW-Madison.
I speak; teachers listen.
A new initiative to reform how Wisconsin schools are held accountable could lead to the development of a national model, similar to welfare reform in the 1990s, according to a leading UW-Madison education researcher.
Following a seven-month national search, UW-Madison on Friday announced the names of four finalists for the position of vice chancellor for re…
For the first time, the Madison School District has been flagged for possible sanctions under the federal No Child Left Behind law because of inadequate student test scores.
In the face of budget cuts, most everyone agrees Wisconsin’s public universities should gain more control over their operations. But the question is: How much control? And to whom should it be given?
Reasons are partly to stem a talent drain through open enrollment, partly to satisfy a vocal group of dissatisfied parents, and partly to find more who don't necessarily have a family with the financial means, determination and know-how to capitalize on their student's untapped talents.