News & Presentations
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Madison School District’s 4K Program Boosting Opportunity for Minority, Low-Income Youngsters
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…
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Lessons Learned From Developing a ‘No Surprises’ Policy for Releasing Research Findings
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…
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Study Finds MMSD Four-Year-Old Kindergarten Expands Educational Equity
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…
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The Benefits of Research-Practice Partnership Work
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…
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Can Kindergarten for 4-Year-Olds Help Close Equity Gaps?
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…
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Madison School District, UW–Madison Create Research-Practice Partnership to Improve Local Education
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.…
