Madison Education Partnership
This article was written by Scott Girard and originally appeared in The Cap Times. Students in the Madison Metropolitan School District will have more mental health support over the next five years as part of a partnership with the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Using a $6 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education, UW–Madison will recruit …
A policy report from UW–Madison researchers that examined the efficacy of a Wisconsin school district’s programs for supporting LGBTQ+ students has been honored by the American Educational Research Association (AERA). For the report, researchers partnered with the Madison Metropolitan School District (MMSD) to look at how several district-wide initiatives aimed at supporting lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, …
This article, written by Jaymes Pyne, Elizabeth Vaade, and Eric Grodsky, originally appeared in the Wisconsin State Journal. Nationally, one in six children miss 15 or more days of school in a year and are considered chronically absent. Education officials have lamented that all this missed instruction has for years constituted an attendance crisis in …
This article originally appeared in The Conversation. Nationally, one in six children miss 15 or more days of school in a year and are considered chronically absent. Education officials have lamented that all this missed instruction has for years constituted an attendance crisis in U.S. elementary, middle and high schools. The fear among policymakers is that these chronically …
This article was originally written by Scott Girard for The Cap Times. New research from the Madison Education Partnership explores the relationship between middle school students’ sense of belonging in school and their sense of belonging in an individual classroom. The paper, published last week through the Madison Education Partnership, used surveys in early 2020 …
In the final phase of our project, Collaborating around the Transition to Kindergarten, funded by the Spencer Foundation, we set out to learn about current information-sharing practices and information gaps (PDF) in the transition from four-year-old kindergarten (4K) to five-year-old kindergarten (5K).
This article was originally written for The Cap Times by Scott Girard. Better communication between 4-year-old kindergarten teachers and their 5-year-old kindergarten counterparts in the Madison Metropolitan School District could improve student outcomes in transitioning to kindergarten, a new report found. A Madison Education Partnership research brief released this month outlines some of the challenges facing teachers …
‘Mathematize Your CLASS’ Offers Free, Customized Training to Strengthen Engagement Strategies Around Math The Madison Education Partnership (MEP) will release a report by the end of October detailing what worked and what didn’t at the close of a two-year project to help teachers in the Madison Metropolitan School District’s four-year-old kindergarten (4K) program strengthen the depth and rigor …
Want to get tips and tricks for doing research in a school district? University-district partnerships provide critical infrastructure for doing locally relevant and innovative research, but it can be challenging to navigate smoothly. View our recording of a March 2020 panel for the inside scoop from UW and Madison Metropolitan School District (MMSD) collaborators on …
This article was originally written by Logan Wroge for the Wisconsin State Journal. A study released Wednesday looking at Madison middle school attendance and absenteeism suggests perfect attendance would have a “very modest” benefit to closing academic achievement gaps. The study, conducted by the Madison Education Partnership, looked at rates of attendance and any associated effects …