Professor Klausmeier?s major achievements while at the University of Wisconsin include the following; writing successive editions of three widely acclaimed college textbooks for educators, founding and procuring funding for the Wisconsin Center for Education Research and developing it as a leader in improving elementary and secondary education and with his colleagues at the Center, developing Individually Guided Education, an alternative to traditional elementary schooling. He directed the royalties that accrued from the sale of IGE materials to be used in establishing a Professorship in Education in the UW School of Education.