by Adam Gamoran | Mar 29, 2011 | Videos
Under No Child Left Behind, efforts to reduce educational inequality have focused on raising standards and holding educators accountable for whether students meet their targets. This aim has now been reinforced by new federal programs that give states incentives to...
by Michael Corradini, Jane Davidson | Oct 7, 2010 | Videos
In the wake of the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico—arguably America’s worst environmental disaster—does nuclear power look any more appealing than it did after the Three Mile Island accident in 1979? Or are wind- and solar-power America’s safest...
by Richard Davidson | Sep 15, 2009 | Videos
Richard Davidson, Wisconsin Academy Fellow and William James and Vilas Research Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry at UW-Madison, discusses how the development of certain positive human qualities may foster not only greater personal happiness but change the way we...
by David Lenz | Sep 27, 2007 | Videos
The paintings of Shorewood, Wisconsin, artist David Lenz reveal the inherent beauty of everyday people—from central city children to rural dairy farmers to people with developmental disabilities. How does the artist tell their story? Who is regarded as...
