August 20, 2020
Mollie McQuillan, an assistant professor with the School of Education’s Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis, is one of three UW–Madison investigators who have been awarded a 2020 Advancing Health Equity and Diversity (AHEAD) Pilot Program grant.
August 18, 2020
The Teacher Pledge provides financial support — including up to in-state tuition, fees, and testing certification costs — for students enrolled in one of the School’s teacher education programs. In return, after graduating the students “pledge” to teach for three or four years at a pre-kindergarten through 12th grade school in Wisconsin. Students who go on to teach in a high-need district or in a high-need subject area will fulfill their obligation in three years, while all others will do so in four.
August 18, 2020
Zara González Hoang, a 2002 alumna of the School of Education's Art department, has written and illustrated a new picture book, titled “A New Kind of Wild.”
August 14, 2020
The School of Education’s offices of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion, and Professional Learning and Community Education (PLACE) will host a symposium, Leading Antiracist School Communities, on Thursday, Aug. 27, from 3 to 5 p.m.
August 13, 2020
Former UW System President Kevin Reilly wrote an article for the winter/spring 2020 issue of AACU's Liberal Education, titled "Get a Job and Get a Life — with James Joyce: Why Reading the 'Jocoserious' Joyce Is Useful Fun."
August 9, 2020
When high schools cut athletes from sports teams, it can be painful for those who didn’t make the team. But it also has wider implications, according to research from UW–Madison’s Mayrena Hernandez, a graduate student with the School of Education’s Department of Kinesiology.
August 4, 2020
Nancy Kendall, a professor and chair of the School of Education’s Department of Educational Policy Studies, was honored with a Vilas Faculty Mid-Career Investigator Award. This award recognizes research and teaching excellence, and provides flexible research funding for three years.
August 3, 2020
The Wisconsin Evaluation Collaborative and Everyday Academics are producing short videos that highlight UW–Madison researchers, faculty, staff, and students who share a few of the guiding principles about their work.
August 1, 2020
UW-Madison alumna Liza Wiemer’s upcoming young adult (YA) novel, “The Assignment,” is being published for release on Aug. 25. “The Assignment” follows a group of students as they must grapple with a school assignment that encourages intolerance and discrimination.
July 23, 2020
Five members of the School of Education community will be featured in the Wisconsin Public Education Network's upcoming summer summit, "Public Education and Democracy," which will take place virtually on Friday, July 24.