Allan Odden

Over the past 18 months educators have seen the national education reform agenda transformed. Novel ideas and unique strategies have been placed on the national docket for serious consideration. This transformation includes a focus on developing talent and managing human capital, a core emphasis of the education agenda of President Obama and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan.

It’s critical at this point to concentrate on developing great teachers and leaders, says Allan Odden. Odden is a professor of education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and co-directs the project Strategic Management of Human Capital (SMHC).

 SMHC is pressing for a comprehensive and substantive national policy agenda on human capital reform in education. The project assembled leaders of major education organizations along with innovative superintendents and independent education reform groups.

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MSAN Director Madeline Hafner has received a Bridge People Award from the University of St. Thomas School of Education. The award recognizes those whose work "creates a bridge between themselves and others" through scholarship and research.

Beth Graue has been named an AERA Fellow in recognition of "exceptional scientific or scholarly contributions to education research or significant contributions to the field through the development of research opportunities and settings."

Robert Mathieu says learning is occurring in spite of our graduate system, not because of it (ArsTechnica, 7 March). He is also among 10 faculty members honored for their research with Kellett Mid-Career Awards.

Allan Odden discusses the Monroe County (FL) school district's reform of its teacher pay model
(KeysNet.com, 6 March).

Adam Gamoran is among President Barack Obama's nominees to the National Board for Education Sciences, Department of Education.

CENTER SITES

Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching, and Learning

Children, Families & Schools

Consortium for Policy Research in Education

Coordination, Consultation & Evaluation Center

CoMPASS

Culture, Cognition, and Evaluation of STEM Higher Education Reform

Data-Driven Instructional Systems

Diversity in Mathematics Education

Early Child Care & After-School Care

Formative Language Assessment Records for ELLs in Secondary Schools

Interdisciplinary Training Program in the Education Sciences

Mobilizing STEM for a Sustainable Future

Minority Student
Achievement Network

Secondary Teacher Education Project

Strategic Management of Human Capital

Surveys of Enacted Curriculum

System-wide Change for All Learners and Educators

Teaching Enhanced Anchored Mathematics

Testing Accommodations Research

Transana

Value-Added Research Center

WIDA Consortium

WCER’s Value Added Research Center is helping New York City schools better measure teacher contributions to student achievement. Calling VARC researchers “some of the premier experts in this complicated field,” NYC schools' chief talent officer, Amy McIntosh, says she’s confident that NYC’s model for teacher reports this year “is more robust and rigorous than ever.” Check out these video clips as a good example of how value-added can be explained to a practitioner audience.