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UW, Madison schools team up to train mindfulness muscles

July 1, 2014

Mindfulness practice in the classroom may be one way to help students improve their academic performance, nurture their emotional well-being and bolster their behavior.

Study challenges claims of single-sex schooling benefits

February 3, 2014

As many American public schools adopt single-sex classrooms and even entire schools, a new study finds scant evidence that they offer educational or social benefits.

Segregation in American schools still problematic, despite best efforts

November 1, 2013

As American schools struggle with issues of race, diversity and achievement, a new study in the American Sociological Review has split the difference in the ongoing discussion of resegregation. Yes, black, white and Hispanic students were less likely to share classrooms in 2010 than in 1993, but no, that increase in segregation is usually not the result of waning efforts to reduce it.

New iPad resource for school nurses to be launched in time for start of classes

August 14, 2013

Following a successful year of field testing by school nurses in Wisconsin counties, an innovative project using iPads and customized software to improve child health is now gearing up for national release of its online resource August 22, timed to coincide with the start-up of the school year.

State fair Badgers raise money, school supplies for MPS

August 12, 2013

Wisconsinites and UW alums gave time, money and school supplies to support Milwaukee-area school children last Wednesday during UW–Madison Day at the Wisconsin State Fair.

UW physicist works with young Rube Goldbergs at Madison elementary school

April 25, 2013

The rules are simple, explains Mike Randall, a University of Wisconsin–Madison physicist, who is leading the Rube Goldberg lab tonight at Emerson School in Madison. "Make a contraption that starts by dropping a marble and ends by ringing a bell."

Classes in the park unite middle schoolers with college students, nature

April 23, 2013

Trish O'Kane had reached a dead end. It was her first day teaching a capstone course in environmental studies at the Nelson Institute, and she was ready to forge ahead with a two-hour "college-style" lesson plan.