Winter 2021 graduates reflect on their time at UW–Madison

December 16, 2021

On Sunday, Dec. 19, UW–Madison will celebrate its Winter 2021 Commencement. We reached out to a few of our graduating students to learn what brought them to UW–Madison, their most meaningful experiences, and favorite places on campus.

Books by UW–Madison’s Apple published in Iran

November 20, 2021

A series of books by UW–Madison’s Michael Apple, the John Bascom Professor Emeritus in the School of Education’s Department of Curriculum and Instruction and Department of Educational Policy Studies, has been translated and published by the company Agahpub in Iran.

UW–Madison’s Apple delivers keynote for conference in Brazil honoring Paulo Freire

October 21, 2021

UW–Madison’s Michael W. Apple, the John Bascom Professor Emeritus of Curriculum and Instruction and Educational Policy Studies, gave the opening keynote address on Sep. 27 at a conference honoring the centenary of the birth of the great critical educator Paulo Freire at Pontifical Catholic University in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

UW–Madison’s Claessens co-author of new observational study examining how kids experience kindergarten

September 9, 2021

Amy Claessens is a co-author of a new paper published in the Educational Researcher that utilizes classroom observations in a large urban school district to better examine kindergarten and kids’ experiences. Claessens is the Gulbrandsen Distinguished Chair in Early Education and an associate professor with the School of Education’s Department of Educational Policy Studies. She also is the associate director of the Center for Research on Early Childhood Education (CRECE).

School faculty and staff reunite at traditional ‘Welcome Back Bash’

September 8, 2021

It was a beautiful late summer day for members of the School of Education community — many used to seeing each other only in boxes on their computer screens — to reunite for the traditional Welcome Back Bash for faculty and staff, in the North Plaza of the Education Building overlooking Lake Mendota, on Thursday, Sept. 2. While enjoying a full tailgate lunch, and picking up T-shirts tagged with the phrase “Lead and Inspire,” attendees took a break from their workdays to catch up with colleagues and kick off the new school year. 

New York Times publishes essay by UW–Madison alumna Schirmer

September 1, 2021

The New York Times published a guest essay by UW–Madison alumna Eleni Schirmer that is titled, “We’re Burying Our Kids in Debt (Just Not the Way You Think).” Schirmer earned her PhD in 2021 from the School of Education’s Department of Educational Policy Studies and Department of Curriculum and Instruction.