Madison Education Partnership
This article was written by Paula Arce-Trigatti for the NNERPP Extra. Introduction to “Research Insights” As a Network of research-practice partnerships, we view serving as connectors to be one of our primary roles here at NNERPP. To that end, we are excited to present “Research Insights,” a new series bringing together related studies from NNERPP …
This article was originally written by Eric Grodsky for Education Week. As for many districts around the country, attendance is a high priority for the Madison Metropolitan School District (MMSD). With MMSD already invested in work to increase attendance and having added attendance as part of its accountability metrics, the Madison Education Partnership set out to better understand how …
This post is by Beth Vaade, Madison Education Partnership (@MEP_WCER) Co-Director and Madison Metropolitan School District (@MMSDschools) Innovation Project Manager. Today’s post is the practitioner perspective on Monday’s post: How Much Does Missing School Matter for Young Children? Exploring The Problem of Practice Through Research Student attendance has long been an issue on the forefront of school leaders’ and researchers’ …
This article, written by Christina Vercelletto, originally appeared in K–12 Dive. Dive Brief: Dive Insight: The concept of home visits is more often associated with the birth to age 3 set than K-12. But interest in the potential benefits for school-age kids is on the rise. A study by researchers at Johns Hopkins University found that students …
This article was originally written by Steven Elbow for The Cap Times. This summer, about 100 Madison families with kids entering kindergarten will get home visits from teachers in an experimental effort to build relationships. Beth Vaade, a program evaluation specialist with the Madison School District and co-director of the Madison Education Partnership, said the …
A joint research practice partnership between UW–Madison and the Madison Metropolitan School District has received a $400,000 federal grant for a two-year study to assess and improve instruction in the district’s 4-year-old kindergarten program. Teaching is to be enhanced with the design and piloting of a made-to-order professional development program built around the needs of the district’s …
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 …