Article examines Black parents’ search for ‘good’ schools

May 19, 2021

UW–Madison’s Linn Posey-Maddox, Maxine McKinney de Royston, and Rachel A. Johnson are among the authors of an article published in the Harvard Educational Review that is titled, “No Choice is the ‘Right’ Choice: Black Parents’ Educational Decision-Making in Their Search for a ‘Good’ School.”

Study of surgery instruction reveals complex interactions

May 18, 2021

Three individuals with ties to the UW–Madison School of Education have published an article in the journal, Surgery, that is titled, “Attending’s instructional methods as exhibited during intraoperative takeovers.” The study is the result of a collaboration between the School of Education's Department of Educational Psychology and the UW–Madison School of Medicine and Public Health.

UW–Madison’s Lou Brown, who revolutionized field of special education, dies

May 14, 2021

Lou Brown, a longtime UW–Madison faculty member and one of the most influential scholars and advocates for students with severe disabilities, died on May 1, 2021. Brown, who is widely considered to have revolutionized the field, spent 34 years with the School of Education’s Department of Rehabilitation Psychology and Special Education until his retirement in 2003. It was in the 1970s that Brown called for the end of segregated services for individuals with disabilities — a view that was considered extreme both at the time and throughout much of his career. Today, however, due to his unyielding and life-long leadership such services are widely accepted as best practices.

UW–Madison’s Rau receives Early Career Award from ISLS

May 14, 2021

UW–Madison’s Martina Rau, an associate professor in the School of Education's Department of Educational Psychology, has received the Early Career Award from the International Society of the Learning Sciences (ISLS).

UW–Madison’s Rubin creates last print in Humanities, before building is closed for repairs

May 13, 2021

UW–Madison's Andy Rubin, a lecturer in lithography in the School of Education's Art Department, finished one last lithographic print — “of our beloved Bucky Badger, posing as a 19th century intellectual,” he explained — before the equipment had to be moved out of the building to a temporary space. The print will be used as a fold-over cover for the print sets that Rubin’s lithography students have created this semester.