August 11, 2023
A Wisconsin Public Radio report that examines the issue of low teacher retention in Wisconsin highlights the UW–Madison School of Education Wisconsin Teacher Pledge and the Early Career Teaching Institute — which most recently brought about 100 early-career educators to campus in July — as ways the School is supporting teacher education graduates and helping to keep them in the field.
August 7, 2023
A recent article highlights a Department of Curriculum and Instruction course, “Videogames and Learning,” as one of UW–Madison’s top ten summer classes last year.
August 3, 2023
Madison’s longest running African-American owned magazine, UMOJA, recently published a feature on UW–Madison's Diego Román that was written by Erika Bullock, his colleague in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction.
August 1, 2023
Last month, 17 librarians from across Wisconsin convened at the Wisconsin Center for Education Research (WCER) to explore how virtual reality experiences could help increase rural Latinx students’ engagement with scientific research in the Arctic and Antarctic.
July 6, 2023
John Palmer, a UW–Madison professor emeritus and dean of the School of Education from 1975-1991, died peacefully on June 25, 2023, in Middleton, Wisconsin. Palmer was an esteemed professor in the Departments of Curriculum and Instruction, Educational Policy Studies, and History at UW–Madison. He served as dean of the School of Education for 17 years and retired from the university in 1995.
July 6, 2023
UW–Madison alumni Matthew Knoester and Assaf Meshulam are the authors of a new book, “Learning to Cross Divides: Examining Critical Multicultural and Bilingual Schools,” that will be published by Routledge in July.
June 28, 2023
The UW–Madison School of Education’s Early Career Teaching Institute (ECTI) will host a public keynote address by Kurt Russell, the 2022 National Teacher of the Year, on Tuesday, July 18, at 4 p.m.
June 27, 2023
In the podcast interview, Rudolph discusses the need for science teaching to be less reliant on rigid technical thought.
June 14, 2023
UW–Madison’s Kate Vieira, a professor with the School of Education’s Department of Curriculum and Instruction, was honored by the international Sustainable Arts Foundation for her creative nonfiction work.
June 2, 2023
UW–Madison School of Education Dean Diana Hess was featured in VERIFY’s “The Burnout Equation: America’s Teacher Shortage Crisis.”