February 18, 2025
Meg Sensenbrenner is the Wisconsin Foundation and Alumni Association’s (WFAA) new managing senior director of development for the UW–Madison School of Education, a role she started on Feb. 9. She is taking over from Betsy Burns, who had led the School of Education’s development team since 2016. Burns has recently accepted the position of WFAA’s vice president and managing group leader for UW–Madison’s schools of Education, Law, and Human Ecology.
February 17, 2025
The Wisconsin Center for Education Research (WCER) and the Multicultural Student Achievement Network (MSAN) have announced that registration is now open for the 2025 MSAN Institute. The two-day professional learning conference will take place in Madison on April 10 and 11.
February 14, 2025
UW–Madison’s John Baldacchino has released his 17th book, "Secular Reflections: On a Nation’s Anomaly." Baldacchino is a professor in the School of Education’s Art Department and an affiliate of the Department of Educational Policy Studies. His work explores art, philosophy, and education, with a particular focus on political theory and cultural critique.
February 13, 2025
Five essays by UW–Madison’s Michael W. Apple, the John Bascom Professor Emeritus of Curriculum and Instruction and Educational Policy Studies, were named among the "Best Reviews of the 21st Century" by Education Review, a journal devoted to essay reviews of important books in educational research, theory, policy, and practice.
February 12, 2025
UW–Madison's Michael Olneck, a professor emeritus in the School of Education's Department of Educational Policy Studies, is the author of a new book titled, "Culture Wars in American Education: Past and Present Struggles Over the Symbolic Order."
February 11, 2025
Maternal experiences with racism could affect brain development of children in utero, according to a study co-authored by a School of Education faculty member and doctoral student.
February 11, 2025
Our Wisconsin Teacher Pledge’s premise is simple but transformational: If you pledge to stay, we pledge to pay. And training quality educators like Reed Trueblood and keeping them in Wisconsin are critical to addressing the state’s teacher shortage.
February 10, 2025
The Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC) has announced that "I Know How to Draw an Owl," written by Hilary Horder Hippely, is the winner of the 2025 Charlotte Zolotow Award for outstanding writing in a picture book.
February 6, 2025
Editors of “The Bloomsbury Handbook of Global Social Studies in Education” will be on the UW–Madison campus for a panel discussion on Thursday, March 27. The event is titled, “Multiple Modernities from the South to the North: History of the Present, Cultural Differences, and Social Pathologies.” The discussion will run from 2 to 4 p.m. in room 220 of the Teacher Education building (225 N. Mills St.).
February 4, 2025
For five decades, UW–Madison has graduated top-tier athletic trainers who have gone on to do life-changing work for professional sports teams, leading health care institutions, and the private sector. This year, the program celebrated a quarter century of accreditation by the Commission on Accreditation of Athletic Training Education (CAATE).