DATA and PIZZA Workshop for UW Graduate Students – Tues., Sept. 24, 3:00-4:00 PM

Led by:          Amy Claessens (Associate Director of CRECE) Where:         Room 253, Educational Sciences (WCER)                          1025 West Johnson Street Dr. Amy Claessens is an Associate Professor in Educational Policy Studies in the School…

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Dr. Mimi Engel Talk – September 20

CRECE and ITP Present: Dr. Mimi Engel Understanding Elementary School Absences in Chicago Friday, September 20 12:00 – 1:30pm 259 Educational Sciences 1025 West Johnson Street Dr. Mimi Engel is an Associate Professor in the School of Education at the…

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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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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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DATA and PIZZA Workshop for UW Graduate Students – Tues., April 23, 3:00-4:30 PM

Datasets: Early Childhood Longitudinal Study - Kindergarten (ECLSK) 1998 & 2010 Led by: Amy Claessens (Associate Director of CRECE) and researcher Hyunwoo Yang Where: Room 259, Educational Sciences (WCER) Early childhood research has generated data sets available to the public…

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WISCONSIN STRONG! High Quality Childcare and a Healthy Workforce – April 9

Business + Early Care and Education = WISCONSIN STRONG! April 9, 10 AM-noon, Madison Central Library Human resources directors and leaders of the Wisconsin Early Childhood Association, Office of Child Care and Family Resources (UW-Madison), Satellite Family Child Care, the…

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CRECE Researchers Presenting at AERA

CRECE researchers are presenting on a variety of early childhood topics at the annual American Educational Research Association (AERA) conference.  If you are attending the 4-day meeting, look for Beth Graue, Kathryn Boonstra, Jiyeon Lee, Moonjoo Woo, and others from…

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CRECE Leads Sessions at Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction Preserving Early Childhood Conference

Developmentally Appropriate Learning: Play is the Way! March 2019 in Madison, WI CRECE Director Beth Graue and colleagues presented cutting-edge research and play-based education strategies to teachers and administrators, about 250 in all, from rural and urban areas throughout Wisconsin.…

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WPR Interviews CRECE’s Beth Graue on Milwaukee Pre-K Report

Milwaukee Pre-K Programs have good access but high class sizes (listen to WPR segment) A national study focused on pre-K programs in 40 of the US's largest cities was recently released by CityHealth and the National Institute for Early Education Research.  The report…

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