Education

• My video gamer is smarter than your honor roll student
  (April 15, 2013) Serial entrepreneur and homeschool advocate Penelope Trunk claims that videogames, not traditional schooling, better prepares children for a future world...
• Can you explain your ‘big data’ tech to a middle schooler?
  (April 11, 2013) ...
• Teacher knows if you’ve done the e-reading
  (April 9, 2013) ...
• Chancellor choice Blank makes sense for UW-Madison – and Wisconsin economy
  (March 19, 2013) A little more than a year ago, Rebecca Blank visited the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery on the UW-Madison campus to...
• After 40 years, Waisman Center still at forefront of research on the brain
  (February 7, 2013) The telegram from President John F. Kennedy to University of Wisconsin President Fred Harrington was both eerie and visionary. Eerie...
• Firm may challenge loss of statewide school data deal
  (February 4, 2013) A Stevens Point company providing school software to about half of Wisconsin's districts has lost a bid to become the...
• Measuring the success of online education
  (January 17, 2013) ...
• Audit uncovers UW System overpayments for insurance, pension benefits
  (January 11, 2013) The University of Wisconsin System made $15.4 million in overpayments for health insurance premiums - including $8 million for 924...
• One university to rule them all: Stanford tops startup list
  (December 3, 2012) ...
• UW No. 4 in research funding, down a spot but up in money
  (November 30, 2012) ...