The State of Maine benefits from WCER's Value-Added Research Center (Maine Public Broadcasting, 22 January).
Chris Thorn, Associate Director of VARC, discusses the Pittsburgh merit pay plan (Post-Gazette, 13 December), and how the Bush Foundation is partnering with VARC to evaluate teachers in Minnesota, and North and South Dakota, based on student performance (Pioneer Press, 3 December).
Rob Meyer talks with Todd Finkelmeyer of The Capital Times about value-added models and the "race to the top" (11/10/09).
On November 9, 2009, Wisconsin Public Radio featured the story Metrics system strives to provide comparisons that are "apples-to-apples," about value-added measures and the Value-Added Research Center.
The VARC project is helping NYC schools manage their data (NY Times, 8 September).
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Read 180 Evaluation
The Milwaukee Public School’s READ 180 evaluation aims to provide information to the district about the effectiveness of the READ 180 intervention. Evaluators are working with the district to prepare the necessary steps for a randomized trial. In addition, they are investigating the fidelity of implementation of Read 180 to gain further information on the effects of Read 180 on students’ academic achievement. In particular, they are investigating MPS’s alignment to the intended program structure, materials and instruction.
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Contact
Rachel Lander
Phone: (608)0265-2879
Office: 869 Ed Sciences
rlander@wisc.edu
