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Quoted: So, if not a better education, what exactly does a child get from an expensive private education? University of Wisconsin-Madison professor Gloria Ladson-Billings suggested that it’s more about the lasting connections one can forge at a private institution.

Quoted: “I think they have strong claims to make in both federal and state courts,” Richard Monette, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor who specializes in tribal law. “I think in both cases, the courts would not summarily dismiss their claims but would want to have them briefed and they’d want to hear that.”

Quoted: David Vanness, a health economist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, calculated that if the average payments for the procedures were purely random across metro areas, the odds of one metro area’s being among the seven most expensive for all three were about one in 1,400.

Quoted: Rich Halverson, education professor and associate director of the University of Wisconsin’s Games Learning Society, diagnoses the problem this way: “When you manage an education system that’s as rich in potential as ours with a sense of crisis, all crisis does is shut down possibility. We try to reach for the proven, for the stuff that works. Practices on the edge get ignored.”

Quoted: “Elevated body temperature is associated with heat stress, heat exhaustion, and heat stroke which can be fatal,” said Dr. Jonathan Patz, who is director of the Global Health Institute at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.

Quoted: Catalina Toma, a psychologist and assistant professor in the department of communication arts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison says, when we’re talking addiction, much depends on the personality of the user.

Quoted: “We had a mass exodus of seasoned, senior people going to the private sector,” said Steven Deller, a University of Wisconsin professor who has worked extensively on economic-development projects in the state. “So the state’s economic development arm was out of commission for a long time.”

Quoted: Within the Fourth Estate, the Williams case is “a weird different kind of animal,” says Robert Drechsel, the director of the Center for Journalism Ethics at the University of Wisconsin.

Quoted: Uh … no, says Joanne Cantor, the director for the Center for Communications Research at University of Wisconsin in Madison. First of all, kids under about 8 years old don’t have the cognitive ability to rely on past information — such as our parental media literacy speeches — when later watching a commercial for a juicy burger meal that comes with a fun toy, she says. Young kids operate in the immediate moment and typically believe everything they’re told. They can’t yet separate fantasy from reality until they’re older, says Cantor.

Quoted: In the U.S., opposition to vaccines was most intense in the late 1800s and early 1900s, said Susan Lederer, chair of medical history and bioethics at the University of Wisconsin.

Quoted: However, Dominique Brossard, chair of the department of life sciences communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, pointed out that because the poll surveyed members of AAAS, an advocacy group, they do not represent scientists as a whole.

Quoted: Dominique Brossard, a professor of life sciences communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who has studied commenting, cautioned against drawing too many conclusions about sexism from Dr. Moss-Racusin’s study. She noted that the authors looked at comments from only three sources, and were able to assign gender to only about half the comments.