January 17, 2025
School of Education faculty member Beth Fields offered her expertise on the needs of Wisconsin care partners and those they care for at a recent national summit and political advocacy day in Washington, DC.
School News
Art and engineering forge partnership for practical learning in Art Department foundry
January 16, 2025
Mechanical engineering students gained practical experience casting screwdriver handles this fall in the Art Department’s foundry in a collaboration between the two departments.
UW–Madison’s Henry named 2025 Emerging Scholar by Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
January 13, 2025
UW–Madison’s Kevin Lawrence Henry Jr., an associate professor in the School of Education’s Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis (ELPA), has been honored as a 2025 Emerging Scholar by Diverse: Issues in Higher Education.
UW–Madison alumna wins first prize at international glass competition
January 10, 2025
UW–Madison alumna Wai Tung Jocelyn Chan, who earned her BFA from the School of Education’s Art Department in 2021, is the first place winner of the prestigious 2024 Stanislav Libenský Award.
Three UW–Madison scholars among top 200 in 2025 Edu-Scholar Public Influence Rankings
January 9, 2025
Three scholars with ties to UW–Madison are receiving recognition in the annual Edu-Scholar Public Influence Rankings, which spotlight the top 200 education scholars in the United States “who did the most last year to shape educational practice and policy.”
Principal Preparation program fuels Arabel Marcano Colon’s passion for multilingual education
January 7, 2025
Following is a Q&A with Arabel Marcano Colon, who graduated from the Wisconsin Idea Principal Preparation master’s program in 2023. Originally from Puerto Rico, Colon relocated to Wisconsin six years ago and today is an eighth-grade bilingual resource teacher and dual language immersion coordinator in Madison.
UW–Madison’s Baldacchino co-edits special journal issue examining ‘degrowth’ in education
January 6, 2025
A special issue of the journal Nordic Studies in Education, co-edited by UW–Madison’s John Baldacchino, explores the concept of “degrowth” in education.
UW–Madison graduate student wins Midwest Award for Artists with Disabilities
January 3, 2025
UW–Madison graduate student Carly "Car" Riegger has been honored with a 2024 Midwest Award for Artists with Disabilities from Arts Midwest.
UW–Madison scholars publish groundbreaking American Educational Research Journal article on supporting trans students
January 2, 2025
Leaders of elementary and high schools need more training on how to implement policies that support transgender and gender-diverse students, according to a new study from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Two PhD students from School of Education inducted into Bouchet Graduate Honor Society
December 26, 2024
The Graduate School at UW–Madison welcomed five outstanding scholars into the university’s chapter of the Edward Alexander Bouchet Graduate Honor Society this academic year, including two PhD students from the School of Education.