Four with ties to School of Education named Morgridge Fellows

June 9, 2020

The fellows were selected through a juried process to participate in the year-long learning community designed to further institutionalize and support community-engaged scholarship, defined as: teaching, research, and scholarly activities that are performed in equitable, mutually beneficial collaboration with communities to fulfill campus and community objectives.

UW-Madison’s Hora, Chen receive NSF grant to study online internships during pandemic

May 27, 2020

This award, for $145,000, is part of the NSF’s COVID-19 rapid grants program. Hora, the principal investigator, is an assistant professor with the Department of Educational Policy Studies and the director of the Center for Research on College-Workforce Transitions (CCWT). Chen is an assistant researcher within WCER who works with CCWT on research projects.

Stonehouse, Smith honored with 2020 Awards in the Creative Arts

May 25, 2020

Each May, the UW­–Madison Division of the Arts celebrates artistic achievement, recognizes service to the arts, and supports arts research by bestowing the Awards in the Creative Arts. And once again, artists associated with the School of Education were recipients of these honors. Fred Stonehouse received the Creative Arts Award and Leslie Smith III was recognized with the Emily Mead Baldwin Award in the Creative Arts.

Moeller co-authors op-ed: ‘Gates Foundation’s tactics to remake public education during pandemic are undemocratic’

May 19, 2020

UW–Madison’s Kathryn Moeller co-authored an op-ed that was recently published by The Chronicle of Philanthropy. Moeller is an assistant professor with the School of Education’s Department of Educational Policy Studies, and the author of “The Gender Effect: Capitalism, Feminism, and the Corporate Politics of Development.” The op-ed is co-authored with Rebecca Tarlau, an assistant professor of education, and labor and employment relations at Pennsylvania State University.

Researchers release free, at-home early math resources for families

May 15, 2020

A team of education researchers from across the country has pooled its expertise to develop the, “At-Home Early Math Learning Kit for Families.” Among those helping with the initiative is UW–Madison's Amy Claessens, who holds the Gulbrandsen Distinguished Chair in Early Childhood Education.