Madison Education Partnership
This article was originally written by Karen Rivedal for the Wisconsin State Journal. New research shows the Madison School District’s 4-year-old-kindergarten program is enrolling a greater share of minority and low-income children, potentially boosting opportunity for historically disadvantaged youths as more 4K participants overall go on to district kindergarten. But there’s room for improvement as …
This article was originally written by Dominique Bradley for Education Week. In our first year of full operation, the Madison Education Partnership (MEP) has been focused on research about the district’s four-year-old kindergarten program (read our original blog post in Education Week). We have been tackling questions about enrollment patterns, kindergarten readiness, and equitable access to programming in the Madison …
Since the Madison Metropolitan School District (MMSD) began four-year-old kindergarten (4K) in 2011, more than two-thirds of its kindergarten students have started in its 4K programs. The district offers three-hour, play-based 4K sessions in the morning and afternoon. Now, with six full years of operational data on 4K, a new research-practice partnership between MMSD and …
This article was originally written by Jaymes Pyne and Beth Vaade for Education Week. A perennial challenge for most research-practice partnerships is maintaining the mutually beneficial part of the equation. For the Madison Education Partnership (MEP) – a research-practice partnership between the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Wisconsin Center for Education Research (WCER) and the Madison Metropolitan School District (MMSD) – this challenge …
This article was written by Dominique Bradley and Eric Grodsky for Education Week. Wisconsin is home to some of the most extreme disparities in academic success and incidence of poverty between African American and non-Hispanic white students in the nation. These disparities are evident in the Madison Metropolitan School District (MMSD), which serves a racially and economically …
A new partnership between the Madison Metropolitan School District (MMSD) and the University of Wisconsin–Madison seeks to combine the expertise of district educators and university researchers to improve education. MMSD and the Wisconsin Center for Education Research (WCER), part of the university’s School of Education, have worked together for many years on specific problems and focused research projects. Now the organizations are …