MADISON, Wis. – Madison’s public schools appear to be succeeding with efforts to attack a problem common to urban districts nationwide – the performance gap between students of different races, according to two education researchers.
Strategies such as more one-on-one tutoring and smaller class sizes should continue even in the face of tightening budgets, said Julie Underwood, dean of the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Education, and Adam Gamoran, director of the Wisconsin Center for Education Research.