Graue, Woo and Lee present on Choice Versus Accommodation: Cultural, Family, and Child Factors in Family Pre-K Decision Making at 2019 AERA Conference

CRECE Director Beth Graue and researchers Moonjoo Woo and Jiyeon Lee presented on choice versus accommodation at the 2019 AERA Conference in Toronto, Canada.  Their paper draws from a mixed-method study examining how parents make decisions about public preK in…

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Re-Imagining Play the Anji Way

Why would a researcher travel half-way around the world to watch kids play?  CRECE Director, Beth Graue, had a very good reason for flying 20 hours to Anji, a county situated in a northwestern province of China. Along with CRECE…

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Boonstra and Graue present on “The Recurring Kindergarten Panic” to AERA in Toronto

Using frame analysis, Boonstra and Graue analyzed the ways that media have framed kindergarten as being in perpetual crisis over the past 50 years.  Their paper:  The Recurring Kindergarten Panic: Fractured Narratives in Newspaper Framing, 1964-2017, unpacks the issues and…

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CRECE Research Featured at 2019 Madison Education Partnership Symposium

CRECE Director Beth Graue shared findings from a study about  Family Decision Making about 4K Enrollment during the Annual MEP Symposium, Partnering for Progress, hosted at The Spark on April 25, 2019.  Alongside collaborators from the Madison Metropolitan School District…

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