Campus Connection: UW prof named to panel tasked with examining achievement gap

UW-Madison professor Gloria Ladson-Billings is one of seven education heavyweights from across the country named to a panel that?s designed to accelerate and advise on efforts to close achievement gaps at schools in the United States. The NEA Foundation on Tuesday announced the scholars and practitioners who would serve as the inaugural cohort of its Senior Fellows Advisory Group. Dawn Crim, the School of Education?s associate dean for external relations, says Ladson-Billings and others within UW-Madison continue to work with the Madison schools on a range of issues -? including closing the achievement gap.