Allan Odden

Over the past 18 months educators have seen the national education reform agenda transformed. Novel ideas and unique strategies have been placed on the national docket for serious consideration. This transformation includes a focus on developing talent and managing human capital, a core emphasis of the education agenda of President Obama and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan.

It’s critical at this point to concentrate on developing great teachers and leaders, says Allan Odden. Odden is a professor of education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and co-directs the project Strategic Management of Human Capital (SMHC).

 SMHC is pressing for a comprehensive and substantive national policy agenda on human capital reform in education. The project assembled leaders of major education organizations along with innovative superintendents and independent education reform groups.

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Beth Graue has been named an AERA Fellow in recognition of "exceptional scientific or scholarly contributions to education research or significant contributions to the field through the development of research opportunities and settings."

Robert Mathieu says learning is occurring in spite of our graduate system, not because of it (ArsTechnica, 7 March).

Allan Odden discusses the Monroe County (FL) school district's reform of its teacher pay model
(KeysNet.com, 6 March).

Eric Camburn comments on efforts to improve teaching quality (Madison Isthmus, 26 Feb.). 

Adam Gamoran is among President Barack Obama's nominees to the National Board for Education Sciences, Department of Education.

Gary Cook says teachers and school administrators want more training to better interpret and use data from the state's assessment system (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 20 Feb.).

CENTER SITES

Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching, and Learning

Children, Families & Schools

Consortium for Policy Research in Education

Coordination, Consultation & Evaluation Center

CoMPASS

Culture, Cognition, and Evaluation of STEM Higher Education Reform

Data-Driven Instructional Systems

Diversity in Mathematics Education

Early Child Care & After-School Care

Formative Language Assessment Records for ELLs in Secondary Schools

Interdisciplinary Training Program in the Education Sciences

Mobilizing STEM for a Sustainable Future

Minority Student
Achievement Network

Secondary Teacher Education Project

Strategic Management of Human Capital

Surveys of Enacted Curriculum

System-wide Change for All Learners and Educators

Teaching Enhanced Anchored Mathematics

Testing Accommodations Research

Transana

Value-Added Research Center

WIDA Consortium

Martha Alibali and Mitchell Nathan are leading a team of three university groups investigating the learning and teaching of the mathematics of space and motion. Their research aims to produce a theory of embodied mathematical cognition that can apply to a broad range of people, including the technical workforce, classroom teachers, and curriculum designers. One study setting is an extended summer program for talented high school students that recruits from racially diverse and/or economically disadvantaged communities. Another is methods courses for secondary pre-service mathematics teachers. This research involves professional mathematicians, graduate students in mathematics, professionals working with mapping and spatial analysis, pre-service high school mathematics teachers, high school students, pre-engineering vocational students, and talented middle and high school youth.