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WCER researchers are helping the Chicago Community Trust develop plans and assessment instruments for its Education Program. The Trust provides charitable resources in the arts,

African Americans represent only 5.2% of all university faculty in the U.S. and only 1% of tenure track faculty in computer science.

In a new Working Paper, Catherine Compton-Lilly presents a case study of one low income African American child to explore how children accumulate various forms of ‘writing capital’ and how that plays out in different contexts

America’s preoccupation with illegal immigration and the growing Hispanic population has fueled anti-immigrant and anti-Hispanic sentiment. Like African-American students

The pool of engineers in the U.S. is neither large enough nor diverse enough to meet the needs of a growing high-tech economy.

July 7, 2009 - Low educational achievement contributes to and perpetuates socioeconomic, health, and other inequalities for African Americans. And for males in particular, educational and employment outcomes have declined, even over the past two decades.

The Wisconsin Mentoring Seminar helps science graduate students and postdoctoral researchers learn to communicate more effectively, discuss mentoring approaches