Chalkbeat utilized the expertise of UW–Madison’s Suzanne Eckes recently in an article reporting on a settlement agreement that clarifies the terms of what’s commonly known as Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” law, which restricts classroom instruction related to sexuality and gender identity in Florida public schools. The settlement ensures that Florida teachers can, for instance, place …
UW–Madison’s Tim Portlock, a professor with the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies and the School of Education’s Art Department, beginning in fall 2023, was a guest on WORT 89.9 FM’s “A Public Affair” program recently. Portlock joined host Douglas Haynes in the studio to talk about his new role, engaging students, and his art making …
Two individuals with ties to the UW–Madison School of Education were among the 11 Badgers named on Madison365’s annual list of “Wisconsin’s Most Influential Native American Leaders” for 2024. Nicole Bowman, an associate scientist and evaluator with the Wisconsin Evaluation Collaborative (WEC), housed in the School of Education’s Wisconsin Center for Education Research (WCER), was recognized by …
Artist, author, and anthropologist Marlon F. Hall, a Spring 2024 Interdisciplinary Artist-in-Residence with UW–Madison’s Division of the Arts and the School of Education’s Art Department, is presenting an exhibition, “Can I Tell You a Story?: From a Door at the Center of the Table,” in the Memorial Union’s Main Gallery through May 17. The exhibition …
By Sofie Schachter Sophie Sanchez arrived on the UW–Madison campus with a plan of majoring in biology. “I didn’t even know kinesiology existed at that point,” admits Sanchez. But that all changed during her sophomore year, when as part of a biology class project, Sanchez was introduced to the Schrage Lab. Led by Department of Kinesiology …
Badger Talks recently hosted a presentation featuring UW–Madison’s Alyssa Ramirez Stege, a clinical assistant professor with the School of Education’s Department of Counseling Psychology, where she leads the Esperanza graduate certificate program. The presentation explores the development of Esperanza: Nuestra Cultura de Salud (“Hope, our culture of health”), a community-university partnership between Centro Hispano of Dane County and …
UW–Madison Professor Emerita Gloria Ladson-Billings will deliver the AERA Distinguished Lecture at the 2024 Annual Meeting, to be held April 11–14 in Philadelphia. Her lecture, titled “‘Not Yet at Plessy’: 70 Years Post-Brown,” will begin at 11:25 a.m. ET on Friday, April 12. Ladson-Billings, the former Kellner Family Distinguished Chair in Urban Education with the School …
UW–Madison faculty member Michael Velliquette appeared recently on the Level Up Artists podcast for an episode that is titled, “Presence and Permanence with Michael Velliquette.” In the episode, Velliquette, an artist and paper sculptor, talks about discovering paper as a complex creative medium, exploring where present and permanence intersect, pursuing opportunities that are genuine to the work, and nurturing …
UW–Madison’s School of Education is the No. 1 school of education in the United States, according to the 2024 U.S. News & World Report Best Education Graduate Schools rankings released on Tuesday. It marks the first time the School of Education has received the first-place ranking from U.S. News & World Report, though it has been highly …
By Karen Rivedal, WCER Communications Two new reports from the Madison Education Partnership (MEP), housed in the School of Education’s Wisconsin Center for Education Research (WCER), look at differences in the experiences of students enrolled in full-day and half-day four-year-old kindergarten (4K) in the Madison Metropolitan School District (MMSD) during the 2022–2023 school year, which was the …