April 5, 2022
Up North News utilized the expertise of UW–Madison’s Michael Apple, a professor emeritus in the Departments of Curriculum and Instruction and Educational Policy Studies, for a recent article that is titled, “Wisconsin GOP’s War on Public Schools Enters Primetime with Tuesday’s School Board Elections.” The article highlights how school board elections, “once sleepy, nonpartisan affairs,” have become somewhat of a referendum on the role of public schools.
March 29, 2022
UW–Madison is home to the fifth-ranked school of education in the nation — marking the ninth straight year it has been rated among the top five. UW–Madison’s School of Education is also the only one in the nation to have a top-10 ranking in all nine education specialty areas — including the No. 1 Educational Psychology program.
March 28, 2022
The UW-Madison Filipinx American Student Organization (FASO) is playing a leading role in hosting the first post-pandemic Midwest Filipino American Summit (MFAS), which is being held on campus April 2, with more than 400 Filipinx students from seven states expected to attend. FASO’s eight executive board members are doing most of the planning for this year’s event — and three of these leaders are current undergraduate students with the School of Education.
March 15, 2022
Noah W. Sobe earned his PhD in 2005 from the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, with a minor from the Department of Educational Policy Studies (EPS). On March 25, he’ll be delivering a keynote presentation about this important work at the 2022 EPS Conference, “The Futures of Education.”
February 21, 2022
The Feb. 25 event with John Johnson, Wisconsin's deputy state superintendent of public instruction, will be hosted in the Education Building as part of WCER's Interdisciplinary Training Program.
February 16, 2022
Recent UW–Madison alumnus Aaron Kinard is the author of an article in the Washington Post that is headlined, “ ‘Midwest nice’ hides a history of racial terror and segregation.” Kinard’s piece builds upon research he did as a McNair Scholar while at UW–Madison. It explains how — despite the trope of “Midwestern nice” — decades of policies and practices have excluded and disadvantaged Black Americans in the region, and how those practices still reverberate today.
February 3, 2022
The Winter 2021 issue of On Wisconsin magazine features a review of a book by UW–Madison alumna and current School of Education student Liz Hauck. Titled “Home Made: A Story of Grief, Groceries, Showing Up — and What We Make When We Make Dinner,” Hauck’s book reflects on how she honored her father’s legacy and explores the philosophical implications of dinner.
January 22, 2022
The Turkish Education Association has published an interview with UW–Madison’s Michael W. Apple on the limits and possibilities of current educational policies and practices. Apple is the John Bascom Professor Emeritus of Curriculum and Instruction and Educational Policy Studies in the School of Education and has a long history of working with critically democratic educators in Turkey.
January 13, 2022
UW–Madison’s Walter Stern, an assistant professor in the Department of Educational Policy Studies, is the author of an opinion piece that was published in The Hill, headlined “A truly ‘patriotic education’ requires critical analysis of U.S. history.”
January 5, 2022
UW–Madison’s Gloria Ladson-Billings is ranked No. 2 in the annual Edu-Scholar Public Influence Rankings that are designed to spotlight top education scholars “who move ideas from academic journals into the national conversation.” Two other scholars with UW–Madison are also ranked: Adam Gamoran is No. 107 and Jerlando Jackson No. 174.