Madison Education Partnership
Almost all Madison Metropolitan School District (MMSD) students have at least one excused absence in each year between kindergarten and third grade, and roughly, half of students in each grade experience at least one unexcused absence. Children with unexcused absences fare far worse in school than those with excused absences, but for the most part the differences …
This article was written by MEP project manager Dominique Bradley for Education Week. For research-practice partnerships (RPPs), developing an outreach and engagement strategy is becoming a commonly recognized need, even one that is included as a requirement for some grant proposals. Unlike in traditional research, the goal for RPPs is not simply to produce research for an …
View the agenda from the 2018 MEP Research Symposium. Introduction by Bob Mathieu and Jennifer Cheatham Research Presentation — Enhancing Equity Through 4K; Eric Grodsky Eric Grodsky, co-Director of MEP and UW Madison Professor of Sociology and Educational Policy Studies, presented findings from two reports produced by MEP internal researchers. The presentation outlined how the …
This article was originally written by Karen Rivedal for the Wisconsin State Journal. A free and public presentation of the latest findings on early learning in the Madison School District will be offered Thursday by a new research collaboration studying the district’s 4-year-old kindergarten program. The Madison Education Partnership, or MEP, is a joint research practice …
Parents, teachers and anyone interested in learning how Madison Metropolitan School District’s (MMSD) four-year-old kindergarten (4K) is supporting local children is invited to the first community presentation of research on the MMSD 4K program by the Madison Education Partnership (MEP). MEP is holding the event on Thursday, April 26, 4 to 7:30 pm., on the …
Beth Graue, Lorena Mancilla, and Eric Grodsky present on ongoing early education research happening at the Wisconsin Center for Education Research.
This article was originally written by Marylee Williams for Wisconsin Public Radio. Students enrolled in Madison’s pre-K program showed improvements in literacy and behavioral skills compared to similar students not enrolled in the program, according to a recently published study. This is the second study from the Madison Education Partnership, which is a research partnership …
This article was originally written by Amber C. Walker for The Cap Times. A study by the Madison Education Partnership found that Madison Metropolitan School District students enrolled in 4-year-old kindergarten have stronger literacy and classroom behavior skills by the time they enter kindergarten than their peers who did not enroll in 4K. MMSD’s 4-year-old …
One of the most promising ways to eliminate social, economic and racial gaps in educational achievement is to stop them before they happen. A recent Madison Education Partnership (MEP) report shows the Madison Metropolitan School District (MMSD) may be doing just that through its four-year-old kindergarten (4K) program. In the second research study from MEP, …
MEP presents findings from a descriptive analysis of the association of enrollment in Madison Metropolitan School District’s Four-year-old Kindergarten (4K) with readiness for Kindergarten, as measured by socioemotional and literacy outcomes.