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View the full archive of Wisconsin Center for Education Research News WCER Research Notes, July 2007 Feature Story: The Coleman Report, Forty Years On. Research Notes: Standards-Based Reform and the Poverty Gap; Aligning Educational Experiences with Ways of Knowing Engineering; Formative Feedback and the New Instructional Leadership; Policy Brief Addresses NCLB. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WCER Research Notes, August 2007 Feature Story: Multimedia analysis of students' growth with Transana. Research Notes: New assessment literacy program joins WCER; Benefits of math and science partnerships; Who will be a high-quality teacher?; Download a new teacher compensation book; Defining K-20 partnerships; Podcast mp3 audio archive available on CD. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WCER Research Notes, September 2007 Feature Story: Aligning Assessments and Standards. Research Notes: Teaching Mathematics for Social Justice; Partnerships Advance Science Instruction; Social Context Affects Learning Inequalities; Teacher's Questions Scaffold Students' Math Reasoning; New articles in the section 'What's The Research On. . . ?' Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Supplemental Educational Services Under NCLB Although NCLB affords special ed students and ELL learners school choice privileges, appropriate services for these ELL and special education students are limited. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Making Better Use Of Limited Resources CPRE offers strategies that schools and districts can use to align the level and use of their resources to dramatically improve student performance, which it labels as doubling student performance, over a period of 5 to 10 years. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website SCALE Promotes Interdepartmental Dialogue NSF Math and Science Partnerships improve teacher quality through fostering partnerships among STEM faculty and education faculty and their K-12 counterparts. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WCER Research Notes, October 2007 Feature story: Ramping up data expertise. Research notes: Teacher logs as a tool for studying educational process; CIRTL offers 8 course guidebooks; WCERr projects extend reach; Solidarity in community. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WCER Research Notes, January 2007 Feature story: Algebra instruction, then and now. Research Notes: Equality of Educational Opportunity: A 40-Year Retrospective; How Computer Games Help Children Learn; FAST Program Receives Recognition. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WCER Research Notes, November 2006 Feature story: Teacher Compensation Remains a Challenge. Research Notes: More Working Papers Posted; FAST Cited as Family-Strengthening Intervention; Evaluating Principals' Performance; Improving Students' Reading and Behavior Skills; Standards-Based Teacher Evaluation and Compensation. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WCER Research Notes, December 2006 Feature story: Low Achievers May Benefit From Interactive Mathematics. Research Notes: Analyzing Instructional Content and Practice; Webcasts for Training and Dissemination; Evaluation of the National Institute for School Leadership; New Working Paper: Performance Pay System Preferences. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Taking reform to scale Geoffrey Borman urges researchers to spend less time attempting to generate national estimates of Title I’s characteristics and effectiveness, and more time on studying the effectiveness of specific interventions it could fund. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Benefits of multiyear summer school What children do during summer break has tremendous implications for understanding and addressing the achievement gap. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The real issue of performance evaluation What really counts in teacher evaluation is the quality of developmental assistance, the credibility and availability of the mentor, and the personal compatibility of the evaluator and evaluatee. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Education for innovation: epistemic games Epistemic games challenge players to learn to think as professionals and help prepare them for innovative thinking Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WCER and the Wisconsin Idea UW Madison President Charles Van Hise said he would 'never be contentuntil the beneficent influence of the university reaches every family in the state.' Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Algebra instruction, then and now Education researchers continue discover more about best practices that lead to improved student learning, effective teaching, and better professional development. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website