Recovery from the pandemic stalled in many schools in 2023. Upper elementary and middle schoolers lost ground in reading and math, compared with student achievement before COVID. Nationally, fourth grade reading achievement dropped to its lowest point in 52 years. But there is promising news in pockets throughout the country. As students move through elementary […]
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UW–Madison’s Kaplan accepts professorship in Heidelberg, Germany
UW–Madison’s David Kaplan has been named the Max Kade Visiting Professor at the Institut für Bildungswissenshaft (Institute for Education Science) at the University of Heidelberg for the fall 2021 semester.
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Kaplan is the Patricia Busk Professor of Quantitative Methods in the School of Education’s Department of Educational Psychology.
Kaplan has held numerous visiting scholar positions and professorships in Germany, including receiving the Alexander von Humboldt Research Award in 2015 with a corresponding research affiliation at the Leibniz Institute for Education Research in Frankfurt am Main. In addition, Kaplan was the Johann von Spix International Visiting Professor at the University of Bamberg in 2018, and is currently a research affiliate of the Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories in Bamberg.
Researchers decry Trump picks for education sciences advisory board
Dec. 11, 2020 , 9:10 PM
One month before his term expires, President Donald Trump has revived a moribund federal education research advisory panel by appointing eight members who appear to have no expertise in the subject area.
The National Board for Education Sciences (NBES) provides guidance to the director of the Institute of Education Sciences (IES), the research arm of the U.S. Department of Education. But the lack of a quorum on the 15-member presidentially appointed board has prevented it from meeting since the waning days of the Obama administration.
That lengthy presidential snub of the panel was part of a broader effort by the Trump administration to shrink government that resulted in a reduced flow of scientific advice to various federal agencies. That effort has had a particularly dramatic impact at regulatory agencies such as the Environmental Protection Agency, where the administration dismantled