January 14, 2021
Education Week blogger Rick Hess published his annual rankings of the top 200 most influential education scholars in the United States recently, and several faculty members with ties to UW–Madison and its School of Education are on the list. UW–Madison’s Gloria Ladson-Billings is up to No. 2 this year, while Adam Gamoran is No. 123, Jerlando Jackson is No. 178, and Bianca Baldridge is No. 198.
January 13, 2021
This statement was released by UW–Madison School of Education Dean Diana Hess on Jan. 13, 2021.
January 13, 2021
UW–Madison's Mitchell Nathan will be delivering a virtual presentation during the event on Jan. 19 that's titled, "Scale-Down Methodology: A Systems Approach for Scaling-up Educational Innovation.”
January 12, 2021
Ida Balderrama-Trudell (she/her) is OEDI’s inaugural director of student engagement and will begin her role on Jan. 24, and Justin Brown (they/them) started Jan. 11 as equity, diversity, and inclusion program associate.
January 11, 2021
The School of Education's Career Center and Teacher Education Center are hosting a virtual PREP (Professional Resources for Educator Preparation) Conference, via Zoom on Jan. 12, 14, 19, and 21, focused on job search preparation.
January 8, 2021
UW–Madison’s John Diamond and Linn Posey-Maddox are co-first authors on a new paper published in the journal Educational Researcher that’s titled, “Reframing Suburbs: Race, Place, and Opportunity in Suburban Educational Spaces.” The article is also co-authored by María D. Velázquez, a doctoral student with the Department of Educational Policy Studies.
January 8, 2021
Experts at UW−Madison’s Wisconsin Center for Education Research, part of the School of Education, are striving to answer questions about how racial, ethnic, cultural, and socio-economic differences impact the mentor-mentee relationship, while they help build more inclusive lab environments across the country and increase diversity in the next generation of university-based science leaders through mentorship education.
January 6, 2021
The School of Education’s Art Department is presenting an exhibition of work from students in its Graphic Design area, online through Mar. 20, 2021.
January 4, 2021
UW–Madison’s Elizabeth Graue is co-editor of a new book published by the American Educational Research Association (AERA), titled “Advancing Knowledge and Building Capacity for Early Childhood Research,” with Sharon Ryan, Vivian L Gadsden, and Felice J. Levine.
January 4, 2021
UW–Madison’s Brett Nachman has been awarded a Paul P. Fidler Research Grant from the National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience and Students in Transition at the University of South Carolina. Nachman is a doctoral candidate in the School of Education’s Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis.