by Jenny Saffran, Seth Pollak | Sep 8, 2012 | Videos
In their Academy Evening talk, UW–Madison psychology professors Jenny Saffran and Seth Pollak look at contemporary perspectives, complex human behaviors, and new insights about the emergence of young children’s language and social skills that raise questions...
by Diane Ravitch | Sep 8, 2012 | Videos
In her Academy Evening talk Diane Ravitch, the “best living historian of education” (Washington Post) and America’s “soberest, most history-minded education expert” (Wall Street Journal), gives us one of the best informed analyses of the...
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...