February 4, 2021
The UW–Madison Community Arts Collaboratory is receiving a National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Research Lab award to support a new study examining the value of community arts education initiatives. The Arts Collab is housed in our office of Professional Learning and Community Education (PLACE), and provides research-based arts opportunities for youth to grow as learners, cultivate wellness, and advocate for social change.
January 28, 2021
UW–Madison's Gloria Ladson-Billings was featured in the Capital Times recently, as part of the newspaper’s “What did we learn?” series of interviews with Madison educators, organizers, and leaders looking back at lessons they took from 2020. Ladson-Billings is a professor emerita in the School of Education’s Department of Curriculum and Instruction.
January 26, 2021
UW–Madison’s Matthew Hora, Pallavi Chhabra, and Bailey Smolarek co-authored a recent article in the Community College Journal of Research and Practice, titled “Exploring the Factors that Influence How (And Why) Community College Instructors Teach Communication and Teamwork Skills in Computer Technology Courses.”
January 21, 2021
UW–Madison alumnus Kenneth Teitelbaum has authored a new book, “Critical Issues in Democratic Schooling: Curriculum, Teaching, and Socio-Political Realities,” which was published by Routledge in May 2020. Teitelbaum earned his doctorate from the School of Education’s Department of Curriculum in Instruction in 1985.
January 14, 2021
Education Week blogger Rick Hess published his annual rankings of the top 200 most influential education scholars in the United States recently, and several faculty members with ties to UW–Madison and its School of Education are on the list. UW–Madison’s Gloria Ladson-Billings is up to No. 2 this year, while Adam Gamoran is No. 123, Jerlando Jackson is No. 178, and Bianca Baldridge is No. 198.
January 11, 2021
The School of Education's Career Center and Teacher Education Center are hosting a virtual PREP (Professional Resources for Educator Preparation) Conference, via Zoom on Jan. 12, 14, 19, and 21, focused on job search preparation.
January 5, 2021
The Capital Times newspaper spotlighted a new collaboration between the Madison Metropolitan School District (MMSD) and UW–Madison’s School of Education in an article focused on how the district is shifting its approach to teaching reading in an effort to boost literacy among its students.
January 4, 2021
UW–Madison’s Elizabeth Graue is co-editor of a new book published by the American Educational Research Association (AERA), titled “Advancing Knowledge and Building Capacity for Early Childhood Research,” with Sharon Ryan, Vivian L Gadsden, and Felice J. Levine.
December 29, 2020
UW–Madison’s Kate Vieira is receiving the Edward B. Fry Book Award for her 2019 publication, “Writing for Love and Money: How Migration Drives Literacy Learning in Transnational Families.”
December 28, 2020
UW–Madison’s Eleni Schirmer has authored a new article for The Nation that is headlined, “It’s Not Just Students Drowning in Debt. Colleges Are Too!” Schirmer is a joint doctoral candidate in the School of Education’s Department of Educational Policy Studies and Department of Curriculum and Instruction.