Dickerson-Despenza is recipient of Forward Award from Wisconsin Alumni Foundation

August 17, 2022

School of Education alumna Erika Dickerson-Despenza is a recipient of a 2022 Forward Award from the Wisconsin Alumni Foundation. An award-winning poet and playwright, Dickerson-Despenza says she writes with the Black, Queer, feminist lens, calling attention to how communities can organize to liberate Black women and girls around the globe.

Teaching About the Holocaust workshop to help educators implement Act 30

August 12, 2022

Starting with the upcoming 2022-23 academic year, schools across Wisconsin will be required to provide education on the Holocaust and other genocides under a bipartisan bill signed into law this past spring. In an effort to give educators the tools they need to discuss these topics with students, the UW–Madison School of Education on Aug. 18 is hosting an on-campus workshop titled Teaching about the Holocaust.

UW–Madison’s Apple discusses movement to ban books in schools

August 12, 2022

WBAY-TV / Ch. 2 in Green Bay utilized the expertise of UW–Madison’s Michael Apple for a report examining recent efforts to ban certain books from school libraries, or restrict access to them for younger students. Apple is the John Bascom Professor Emeritus of Curriculum and Instruction and Educational Policy Studies in the School of Education.

Student scholars explain their work at Summer Education Research Poster Symposium

August 4, 2022

The students had been conducting research alongside faculty mentors as a part of the 10-week Summer Education Research Program (SERP).  The young scholars, who came to Madison from around the country and beyond, delivered short presentations and spoke with those who attended the event about their findings.