December 9, 2025
Thomas Popkewitz recently signed a contract on a new book series titled, “Routledge Studies in Histories and Cultural Sociology of the Education Sciences.”
School News
Six from School of Education named ‘Honored Instructors’ for fall 2025
December 8, 2025
Nominated by students living in University Housing, the fall 2025 list of UW–Madison Honored Instructors includes six faculty members in the School of Education.
Full-day 4K students in Madison public schools see better learning outcomes than peers in half-day 4K program
December 5, 2025
For the first time since full-day, four-year-old kindergarten (4K) began in the Madison Metropolitan School District, a new evaluation by researchers from UW–Madison and the district shows “strong evidence” suggesting students in the full-day 4K program learn more over the school year than their peers attending half-day 4K.
Benbow receives NSF grant to study college success for rural STEM students
December 4, 2025
UW–Madison scientist Ross Benbow will use a three-year, nearly $700,000 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to better understand how the social networks of students from rural Wisconsin influence their success in college.
UW–Madison’s Clark, Rodgers to help lead new project on responsible research training
December 3, 2025
A new research project co-led by a School of Education faculty member and a Wisconsin Center for Education Research (WCER) affiliate aims to identify promising ways to support ethical and collaborative research teams in higher education.
New book edited by UW–Madison’s Apple explores where education and politics collide
December 3, 2025
UW–Madison’s Michael Apple, the John Bascom Professor Emeritus of Curriculum and Instruction, is editor of a new book titled, “Education and the Politics of Interruption: Does the Right Always Win?”
UW–Madison’s Her wins TRIO Achiever Award
December 2, 2025
UW–Madison’s Pa Her, a clinical associate professor in the School of Education’s Department of Counseling Psychology and director of the Counseling Psychology Training Clinic (CPTC), has been awarded the 2025 Educational Opportunity Association (EOA) Regional TRIO Achiever Award.
UW–Madison’s Goldberg to study how human support could bolster effects of mental health apps
December 1, 2025
A new UW–Madison study will examine how human-delivered coaching and digital prompts could make a popular mental health app more effective in decreasing an individual’s anxiety or depression symptoms.
Dance Department presents Kloepper Concert of student work Dec. 6–7
December 1, 2025
The UW–Madison Dance Department presents the annual Kloepper Concert, a performance of new student work, Dec. 6–7 in the Margaret H’Doubler Performance Space in Lathrop Hall.
Applications for 2026 cohort of the Special Education Teacher Residency program now open
November 30, 2025
To begin tackling Wisconsin’s shortage of special education teachers, the UW–Madison School of Education — in collaboration with Milwaukee Public Schools — has opened recruitment for the 2026 cohort of the Special Education Teacher Residency program. The early decision application deadline is Dec. 15, 2025.