Media release from the Madison Metropolitan School District The Madison Metropolitan School District (MMSD) is celebrating a major milestone in its Grow Your Own (GYO) to Teacher Program as the initiative’s inaugural cohort completes its associate degrees at Madison College and prepares to continue toward teacher licensure through the University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Education. …
By Karen Rivedal, Office of Research & Scholarship WCER researchers recently offered a behind-the-scenes look at why and how they built a Gemini‑based AI tool to help them make sense of a vast array of complex data collected over five years as part of a national project to develop equity-centered school leadership. In a spring …
UW–Madison’s Bradley Carl, a scientist in the School of Education’s Wisconsin Center for Education Research (WCER) and founding co-director of the Wisconsin Evaluation Collaborative, was recently featured on PBS Wisconsin’s “Here & Now.” In a report by Steven Potter, Carl shared insights on the growing number of rural schools across Wisconsin that are closing permanently …
By Katie Grant, Office of Research & Scholarship Communications New research, published in a peer-reviewed journal by researchers from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the Madison Metropolitan School District (MMSD), shows that children as young as 4 years old begin forming social networks shaped by shared characteristics, offering new insight into how early peer relationships …
UW–Madison’s Courtney Bell, a professor of learning sciences in the School of Education’s top-ranked Department of Educational Psychology, has been appointed chair of the Governing Council of the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR). ICPSR is an international consortium of more than 800 academic and research organizations and is home to the world’s …
UW–Madison’s Mindi Thompson, the Charles and Carol Pulvino Chair in the School of Education’s Department of Counseling Psychology, was recently featured on Wisconsin Public Radio. The “Wisconsin Today” episode, headlined “College, career transition experts say some skills for success are timeless,” explores Wisconsin’s new “Portrait of a Graduate” initiative. Led by the Department of Public …
The School of Education’s Jason Erdmann, an IT project manager in Media, Education Resources & Information Technology (MERIT), was honored with the Ellen La Luzerne Community Builder Award at the 2026 UW–Madison IT Recognition Awards ceremony on May 28. An annual tradition since 2020, the IT Awards recognize the dedication, innovation, and impact of the university’s information …
For more than a decade, scholars from UW–Madison, Peking University, and beyond have come together to examine some of the most urgent challenges facing higher education around the world. Founded in 2015 by Adam Nelson (UW–Madison) and Shen Wenqin (Peking University), the UW–PKU Workshop on Higher Education is a premier international forum that’s one of the most …
UW–Madison’s Rachel Elizabeth Williams, an assistant professor in the School of Education’s Department of Educational Policy Studies, has been selected as a 2026 Southern Education Foundation (SEF) Research Fellow. Williams is among seven distinguished scholars and practitioners chosen through a competitive process for their commitment to advancing education justice across the South. The 2026 cohort …