April 7, 2021
A search-and-screen committee, chaired by the School of Education's Jerlando Jackson, has been appointed to help identify and select candidates for UW–Madison's next deputy vice chancellor for diversity and inclusion, vice provost, and chief diversity officer.
April 5, 2021
UW–Madison’s Xueli Wang is receiving the 2021 Outstanding Publication Award from the American Educational Research Association’s Division J (Postsecondary Education) for her groundbreaking work, “On My Own: The Challenge and Promise of Building Equitable STEM Transfer Pathways.”
April 5, 2021
UW–Madison alumna Deniece Dortch is receiving the Carlos J. Vallejo Memorial Award for Emerging Scholarship from the American Educational Research Association’s (AERA) Multicultural/Multiethnic Education special interest group (SIG). She received her PhD from the School of Education’s Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis in 2016.
April 2, 2021
UW–Madison alumna Jessie Nixon co-authored a blog post published by Sesame Workshop's Joan Ganz Cooney Center that is titled, “Youth Voice for Teacher Empowerment.” Nixon earned her PhD from the School of Education’s Department of Curriculum and Instruction.
March 30, 2021
UW–Madison is home to the fourth-ranked school of education in the nation — marking the eighth straight year it has been rated among the top five. In addition, U.S. News ranks nine education graduate specialty programs — and all nine housed within the UW–Madison School of Education are rated among the Top 10 nationally.
March 29, 2021
A book review published in the Teachers College Record examines a recent publication from UW–Madison faculty member Anjalé Welton, a professor in the School of Education's Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis.
March 17, 2021
The Capital Times utilized the expertise of UW–Madison’s Nicholas Hillman, an associate professor in the School of Education's Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis, for an article reporting on Gov. Tony Evers’ proposed $190 million in new investments to the UW System over the 2021-2023 biennium.
March 12, 2021
A research team from UW–Madison’s Culturally Responsive Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (CRPBIS), housed in the School of Education’s Wisconsin Center for Education Research, has been awarded a $50,000 grant from the Spencer Foundation. The project, titled “Indigenous Learning Lab: Implementation of a culturally responsive behavioral support system to address the racialization of school discipline,” is led by Aydin Bal and Aaron Bird Bear.
March 10, 2021
UW–Madison’s Kevin Henry has published a new paper in the journal Educational Policy that is titled, "'The Price of Disaster’: The Charter School Authorization Process in Post-Katrina New Orleans.” Henry is an assistant professor in the School of Education’s Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis.
March 9, 2021
UW–Madison alumnus David O'Connor, an education consultant with the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction’s American Indian Studies Program, recently received a certificate of commendation from Governor Tony Evers and a legislative citation from Wisconsin State Senator Mark Miller and Representative Melissa Sargent for his work. O’Connor holds a master’s degree from the School of Education’s Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis.