Brad Carl, researcher and associate director at UW-Madison?s Value-Added Research Center says the attention the scores attract alone make them important … Julie Underwood, dean of the UW-Madison School of Education, says the report cards were developed by state officials and legislators with the assistance of education experts as an alternative to No Child Left Behind.
Quoted: “My heavens,” said Julie Underwood, dean of the University of Wisconsin-Madison?s education school. “Yes, it?s better.”
Quoted: There are ?numerous? benefits to using covers on turf during the winter months, says Dr. Paul Koch, associate researcher of Turfgrass Pathology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He cites protection from winter desiccation and early spring green-up as probably the most significant benefits. There may also be some protection from crown hydration when using an impermeable cover like a GreenJacket, although he says data is a little more mixed on that subject.
Dennis Dresang, professor emeritus of public affairs and political science and founding director of the UW-Madison La Follette School of Public Affairs, said he would be surprised if her controversial argument held up in court.
“It is a bit of a trend,” says Jerry O?Brien, executive director of the Center for Retailing Excellence at UW-Madison. “The concept really is that malls are becoming more of a place to go for an experience rather than just to have the transaction of shopping.”
Susan Nitzke, a UW-Madison professor emeritus of nutritional sciences, similarly dismisses the notion of a hard-and-fast figure for daily water intake.
When it comes to Midwest farmland prices, Wisconsin is looking sort of like a tortoise in a field of hares. That?s because farmers in America?s Dairyland often reinvest their profits in cows rather than land, says University of Wisconsin-Madison agricultural economist Bruce Jones.
Noted: While offering a reduced price on Sept. 11 is more apt to offend someone than doing the same thing on Veterans Day, the Wisconsin golf club promotion could have been much worse, said Kathleen Culver, associate director of the Center for Journalism Ethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Professor Shanan Peters says the only way we can have any hope of determining what the future holds is by questioning past changes that have taken place on Earth.
?The issue is that grapes, in particular, are very sensitive to growth regulator herbicides,? said Jed Colquhoun, UW-Madison horticulture professor. ?So it only takes a very low dose to cause damage and ? that can be quite expensive when it does happen.?
?People are going to scream about the insider politics, but every administration has insider politics,? said John Witte, professor emeritus of political science and public affairs at the La Follette School of Public Affairs at UW-Madison.
Quoted: “If what they are saying is correct, that is truly a massive volcano,” Brian Jicha, a geologist at the University of Wisconsin, says in an article published by National Geographic.
There?s a case to make that raising the minimum wage will hurt the people it?s supposed to help. If you go above $9 or $10 an hour, said Tim Smeeding, director of the UW-Madison Institute for Research on Poverty, employers start cutting jobs. They also might start automating jobs out of existence.
Hiking the minimum wage too much might actually hurt workers, in part by reducing employment opportunities, said Tim Smeeding, director of the UW-Madison Institute for Research on Poverty, but actions like this are ?worth doing.?
The iPhone continues to be an unambiguous smash hit product, especially in North America. But Android-powered smartphones, notably those from Samsung, have become a vibrant and dangerous competitor. While the phones are ultimately similar on many dimensions, screen size has become an ever-increasing differentiator. While the screen size of Android phones seem to grow on an almost daily basis, the iPhone has increased in size only once during its life, and remains considerably smaller (and especially narrower, likely to facilitate one -handed use) than its plethora of Android rivals.
Quoted: Donna Friedsam is the Health Policy Programs director at the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute. She says studies have shown that Wisconsin has high-quality health care overall, although it doesn?t rank as well in quality of care for blacks and Hispanics.
It has been 50 years since the iconic March on Washington, but America is still in the midst of a civil rights movement, says William Jones, professor of history at the University of Wisconsin?Madison. In “The March on Washington: Jobs, Freedom, and the Forgotten History of Civil Rights,” Jones offers a new perspective on the 1960s and the profound impact that the march had on economic and social reform. He recently spoke with U.S. News about the goals of the organizers, the consequences of the march, and the potential for today?s civil rights and labor movements.
?Many police administrators look at this situation and are scratching their heads,? said Michael Scott, a UW-Madison law school professor and expert on police procedures. ?The protests had dwindled down to nothing. Why would you fan the flames and get it cranked up again??
Wisconsin residents pay more for health care than those in many other states, but they often receive higher quality care too.
On Aug. 28, 1963, the March on Washington, featuring Martin Luther King Jr.?s “I Have a Dream” speech, became the touchstone of the American civil rights movement. But our focus on one man and one speech has obscured some of the history and meaning of the event.
Brian Hellmer, who heads the UW-Madison Hawk Center for Applied Security Analysis and endorses SWIB?s current investment strategy, acknowledges ?the research shows that generally speaking, passive investing will produce better results (particularly after fees) than trying to actively invest.?
This compensation approach is common in the investment industry, according to Brian Hellmer, head of the UW-Madison Hawk Center for Applied Security Analysis.
?It was more than double what was expected, and I think that surprised even those closely connected to the march,? said UW-Madison history professor William P. Jones, author of ?The March on Washington: Jobs, Freedom and the Forgotten History of Civil Rights,? published in July.
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Noted: When people talk about that day, they tend to go in one of two directions, said William P. Jones, author of ?The March on Washington: Jobs, Freedom and the Forgotten History of Civil Rights? and a history professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
It also includes a response from Donna Friedsam, health policy program director at UW-Madison.
?The products designed for the marketplace were never designed for people in these low-income categories,” Friedsam told Kaiser. “Even with the federal subsidies, the cost sharing will still be quite onerous.”
Quoted: Susan Paskewitz, an entomologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said, ?If they get a signal, CO2 or a little bit of movement, they may actually aggressively hunt you.?
Turns out there just aren?t that many untapped ways to beef up beef. ?We already, in American agriculture and the cattle feeding industry, use all the available nutritional information that we have to maximize growth rate of cattle in the feed lot,? says Dan Schaffer, an animal sciences professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, ?so there is nothing that is held back.?
A Â new study by University of Wisconsin researchers shows that children who are exposed to lead are three times more likely to be suspended from school in fourth grade than those who are not exposed.
Instead, 19-year-old Jeremy Wand?s hopes of taking his case to trial probably rest on whether the judge in the case believes Wand?s pleas were entered correctly, if he understood what rights he was giving up and whether he gave them up voluntarily, said Cecelia Klingele, a UW-Madison assistant law professor who specializes in criminal law and procedure.
Of course, conflicts over evolution are not reserved to religious schools, and the quality of evolution education can be ?hit or miss? in public schools, according to John Rudolph, a UW-Madison professor of curriculum and instruction who specializes in the history of science education. Sending public dollars to private religious schools ?doesn?t help the situation,? he said.
UW-Madison School of Business professor James Johannes also sounded a word of warning. Many banks are doing well because the Federal Reserve has held interest rates very low, and that has encouraged a lot of refinancing.
Interviewed: Math Professor Jordan Ellenberg.
The four-year delay in filing the complaint is not surprising, said UW-Madison professor of finance Mark Ready, formerly a chief economist for the SEC.
Schupp, a 30-year-old former accountant who completed his residency at the UW medical school … Richard Roberts, a UW professor of family medicine, says Schupp is likely filling some gaps.
?The algae don?t care where their phosphorus comes from, so any source we can cut off is good,? said Steve Carpenter, a local lake expert who directs the Center for Limnology at UW-Madison.
Outside of knowing cops will often let us off with warnings for minor traffic offenses, ?I sense that most people are only dimly aware of just how much discretion police exercise, and over what range of matters,? said Michael Scott, a UW-Madison clinical professor of law. Scott is also a former police officer.
Noted: Tune in to the NewsHour Wednesday, Aug. 14, for our first broadcast segment on the march. Gwen Ifill will be joined by William Jones, professor of history at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and author of the book “The March on Washington: Jobs, Freedom, and the Forgotten History of Civil Rights.”
Quoted: “University officials can encourage or discourage local businesses from creating housing for their students that they think is consistent with what they want to have for those students,” says Sara Goldrick-Rab, who researches educational policy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: Mr. Summers and Ms. Yellen were academic stars before entering public service. Menzie Chinn, an economist and professor of public affairs at the University of Wisconsin, said that both were ?at the forefront? of research undermining the idea that markets were self-correcting. By contrast, the former Fed chairman Alan Greenspan frequently argued that government regulation did more harm than good.
Quoted: While the Treasury and the bank group are taking big losses, it probably was the best they could do under the circumstances, said banking expert James Johannes, University of Wisconsin-Madison associate dean for executive education.”If they (AnchorBank) failed, they would have lost everything,” Johannes said. “I think they all got out of it as much as they could expect to get out of it.”
Noted: But some critics of the association?s suggested policy, including Dorothea R. Salo, a faculty associate at the University of Wisconsin at Madison?s School of Library and Information Studies, say the statement is couched in paternalistic language.
Quoted: ?The era of the lawn in the West is over,? said Paul Robbins, the director of the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin. ?The water limits are insurmountable, unless the Scotts Company develops a genetically modified grass that requires almost no water. And I?m sure it?s keeping them up at night.?
Quoted: Mike Wagner, an assistant professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Wisconsin, says the shoutfests “really helped create the impression that the public en masse had reached a boiling point.”
The impending start of the federal health care law mandate is a couple months away, but people may already be hearing ads and seeing information on what to do.
Fake web traffic has long plagued the online publishing world, but Dr. Paul Barford, computer science professor at the University of Wisconsin, is claiming the problem might be worse than suspected. And it?s costing some of the top online advertisers millions in wasted ad impressions.
Noted: Hector DeLuca, professor emeritus of biochemistry at the University of Wisconsin, is amazed by Kummerow.
UW-Madison political science professor Donald Downs said the right to listen is an inherent part of the First Amendment protection of free speech.
Pam Ruegg, veterinarian and milk-quality expert at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has outlined 10 things that dairy farms can do to achieve milking excellence.
Less than 1 percent of food-borne illness outbreaks in the United States involve dairy products because dairy plants use sophisticated processing and cleaning protocols to prevent contamination, according to Marianne Smukowski, an expert on food safety and quality for the Center for Dairy Research at UW-Madison.
?Is it permissible to have a permit system in the Capitol?? UW-Madison political science professor Donald Downs said. ?The answer to that is clearly yes, both on constitutional grounds and on common-sense grounds.?
Noted: Andrea Bill, a researcher at the Traffic Operations and Safety Laboratory at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said there has been a renaissance in the use of quantitative analysis to evaluate roads and predict reductions in crashes, allowing officials to be more proactive about safety.
Noted: Susan Paskewitz, a University of Wisconsin-Madison entomology professor, found the 1/8th-inch long insect, which can spread Lyme and other diseases, on July 11. She said it would be tested later this year for Lyme disease.
University of Wisconsin-Madison entomologist Susan Paskewitz has researched ticks since the early 1990s. Paskewitz measures tick density out in the field. She says ticks are ten times higher than she?s used to seeing.
Sammy shivered on the metal examining table and looked doleful as Jane Pohlman flipped over his butterscotch-colored ears and looked for hitchhikers.
UW-Madison economist Menzie Chinn has been tracking a lot of the data on his ?Econobrowser? blog. He noted recently that the state Department of Revenue in its latest Economic Outlook predicts Wisconsin will fall about 81,000 jobs short of hitting Walker?s 250,000 jobs target by January 2015.
Researchers who used a thick plastic curtain to divide a northern Wisconsin lake in half are wrapping up their 30-year study on air and water pollution.
Noted: The opinion of one of the world?s leading limnologists, Steve Carpenter at the UW-Madison Center for Limnology, on the health of Madison’s lakes.
?A lot of people use the term structural deficit and they define it in different ways,? says Andrew Reschovsky, an economist at UW-Madison?s La Follette School of Public Affairs.
Here?s a study in contrasts. I interview Tom Oliver, a UW-Madison expert on health care, two weeks ago and he tells me the Republican position about people not being able to choose their own physician under Obamacare is “just an outright lie.”
