June 11, 2026
Founded in 2015 by Adam Nelson (UW–Madison) and Shen Wenqin (Peking University), the UW–PKU Workshop on Higher Education is a premier international forum that’s one of the most active and sustained collaborations between the United States and China on the comparative history, sociology, and politics of higher education — an area of increasing policy relevance.
June 10, 2026
UW–Madison’s Rachel E. Williams, an assistant professor in the School of Education’s Department of Educational Policy Studies, has been selected as a 2026 Southern Education Foundation (SEF) Research Fellow.
June 1, 2026
UW–Madison’s Kyoungjin (Jin) Jang-Tucci, a PhD candidate in School of Education’s Department of Educational Policy Studies, is the author of a new peer-reviewed article published in Teachers College Record.
May 20, 2026
When the Madison Education Partnership (MEP) launched in 2016, its goal was simple but ambitious: bring together researchers and educators to address real problems facing Madison’s public schools to contribute to change locally and inform research nationally. Today, UW–Madison researchers and Madison Metropolitan School District (MMSD) teachers and administrators can point to a decade of doing just that, with changes in policy and practice to address some of the district’s most challenging issues.
May 15, 2026
Six members of the School of Education community have been chosen as recipients of 2026 NAEd/Spencer Dissertation and Postdoctoral Fellowships, prestigious national fellowships that support promising education research by early-career scholars.
May 11, 2026
Five faculty from the School of Education have been honored with this year’s Vilas professorships and awards. The awards recognize outstanding research, teaching, and service.
May 4, 2026
UW–Madison’s Naomi Mae W., an assistant professor in the School of Education’s Department of Educational Policy Studies, has been appointed to a statewide task force for the Michigan Black Student Project.
April 23, 2026
A professor emeritus in the School of Education was elected this week to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, a national honorary society and research center.
April 22, 2026
A new article by Erica O. Turner, associate professor in the Department of Educational Policy Studies at UW–Madison, offers a timely rethinking of what educational justice for all should look like in today’s multiracial democracy.
April 21, 2026
Thirty-two graduate students have been selected as recipients of the 2025–26 Campus-Wide Teaching Assistant Awards, recognizing their excellence in teaching. Among this year’s honorees are four graduate students from the School of Education.