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.
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.
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.
October 19, 2021
Research by the Madison Education Partnership (MEP), housed in the School of Education’s Wisconsin Center for Education Research (WCER), was featured in the Capital Times in an article that is headlined, “New research looks at student sense of belonging in Madison middle schools.”
October 13, 2021
Erica Turner's "Suddenly Diverse" and Anjalé Welton's "Anti-racist Educational Leadership and Policy" (co-authored with Sarah Diem) have been recognized by the American Educational Studies Association (AESA) as Critics' Choice Book Award winners.
October 5, 2021
An opinion piece from the New York Times’ Jay Caspian Kang makes note of important work from UW–Madison’s John Diamond and Linn Posey-Maddox focused on the changing terrain of the suburbs and their schools.
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).
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.
September 2, 2021
We spoke to some of our students, faculty, and staff to learn how the pandemic impacted them, what they learned from it, and what they are looking forward to this semester. Following are their stories.
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.