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Beth Graue
  Assistant Director, WCER

M. Elizabeth Graue is Professor of Curriculum and Instruction and is Assistant Director of WCER. Her areas of interest include readiness, class size reduction, preparing teachers for inclusive home-school relations, and qualitative research methods. She is currently part of a team of WCER researchers conducting an evaluation of Wisconsin's Student Achievement Guarantee for Education (SAGE). Beth Graue is also a member of the Qualitative Research Committee in the School of Education, which has developed a resource guide for faculty and graduate students. The guide is located here: SOEQual.wceruw.org Representative publications include: Graue, M.E. & Oen, D. (in press) You just feed them with a long handled spoon. Family perspectives on their experiences in class size reduction. Educational Policy. Graue, M.E., Hatch, K., Rao, K., Oen, D. (2007). The wisdom of class size reduction. American Educational Research Journal 44(3) Graue, E. (2006) The transformative power of reviewing. Educational Researcher 35(9) 36-41. Graue, M.E. (2005). Theorizing & describing preservice teachers’ images of families and schooling. Teachers College Record, 107(1). Graue, M.E. & Grant, C. (2005). Thinking collaboratively about the peer-review process for journal-article publication. Harvard Educational Review 75(3), p. 268-271. Graue, M.E. & Brown, C.J. (2003). Preservice teachers views of families in education. Teaching & Teacher Education. 17 719-735. Graue, M.E., Kroeger, J, & Prager, D. (2001). A Bakhtinian analysis of particular home-school relations. American Educational Research Journal, 38 (3), p. 1-32 Graue, M.E. & DiPerna, J.C. (2000). Redshirting and early retention: Who gets the "gift of time" and what are its outcomes? American Educational Research Journal,37(2), p. 509-534. Graue, M.E. (1993) Ready for What? Constructing Meanings of Readiness for Kindergarten. Albany: SUNY Press. Graue, M.E. & Walsh, D.J. (1998) Studying Children in Context: Theories, Methods & Ethics. Thousand Oaks: Sage. Contact Information graue@education.wisc.edu Phone: (608) 262-7435 Office: 785A Ed Sciences Mail Drop: 74 Current Projects Director's Office Professional Development for Culturally Relevant Teaching and Learning in Pre-K Mathematics Completed Projects Class Size Reduction in Practice: How, When, and Why SAGE Works The Gift of Time: Promoting Risk or Resilience in Young Children