UW–Madison’s School of Education and many of its programs are again rated among the very best in the nation according to the 2023 U.S. News & World Report Best Graduate Schools rankings released Tuesday, March 29. UW–Madison is home to the fifth-ranked school of education in the nation — marking the ninth straight year it has been …
By Käri Knutson, University Communications Travis Wright, an associate professor with the School of Education’s Department of Counseling Psychology and a nationally recognized expert in school-based support for children and families undergoing trauma, was named faculty director of UW–Madison’s Morgridge Center for Public Service. Wright began his new role Feb. 1, following Earlise C. Ward, who …
By Todd Finkelmeyer “What’s the purpose of a college education?” When the question is first posed by UW–Madison’s Clifton Conrad, it seems simple enough. But after a couple seconds of awkward silence, one begins to realize that while many broadly accept the importance of higher education, its purpose is a bit fuzzy. At the very …
UW–Madison’s David Kaplan, the Patricia Busk Professor of Quantitative Methods in the School of Education’s Department of Educational Psychology, was named an international guest professor and will spend three months at the Institute für Bildungswissenshaft (Institute for Education Science) at Heidelberg University in Germany. The professorship is part of the project “Expanding Internationality,” a component of the university’s Excellence …
By Karen Rivedal, WCER Communications Congratulations to Shahanna McKinney-Baldon and Annalee Good of the Wisconsin Evaluation Collaborative (WEC), housed in the School of Education’s Wisconsin Center for Education Research, for receiving a $115,000 Baldwin Wisconsin Idea Project Grant for their proposal to help youth better lead improvements in their schools and neighborhoods. “Our K–12 schools require change driven by those closest to the …
By Laurel White One of the most highly respected education journals in the country has released a special issue this summer, co-edited by a UW-Madison School of Education faculty member, dedicated to research about the experiences of transgender elementary and high school students. The special issue of the journal Educational Researcher, titled “Trans Studies in K12 Education,” is aimed …
By Kari Dickinson The UW–Madison School of Education’s Early Career Teaching Institute will host a public keynote address by Juliana Urtubey, the 2021 National Teacher of the Year, on Tuesday, July 26, at 4 p.m. Both the presentation and reception that follows are in Varsity Hall at Union South, and are free and open to the public. However, registration is …
By Todd Finkelmeyer As an undergraduate majoring in linguistics at UW–Madison in the late 1970s, Kathleen T. Horning found herself at a crossroads — and took a fortuitous turn into the Cooperative Children’s Book Center (CCBC). As Horning recalls the situation, she loved linguistics but not its job prospects. So she decided to pursue certification to be able …
By WCER Communications Field Day Lab’s newest online learning game, The Legend of the Lost Emerald — an immersive, boldly illustrated point-and-click adventure game that teaches while it entertains — won its first accolades recently with a top prize in the 2022 International Serious Play Awards Program in Orlando, Florida. The free game invites young students to “step into …
By Kari Dickinson The UW–Madison Community Arts Collaboratory, housed in the School of Education’s office of Professional Learning and Community Education (PLACE), is the recipient of a $25,000 grant from the Madison Arts Commission through its “Artists at Work” subgrant program. The grant will support providing continuous, part-time employment to three teaching artists as part of the Arts Collaboratory’s …