To celebrate our alumni excellence across the arts, health, and education, the School of Education has selected four notable UW–Madison alumni to receive a Distinguished Alumni Award. The School of Education will be honoring the four recipients — who have made outstanding contributions to their field — with an awards ceremony on Thursday, Sept. 12, …
By Laurel White Offering “direct admission” to college increases college applications, particularly for minority and low-income students, but those applications don’t always lead to enrollments, according to a new study co-authored by a UW–Madison School of Education faculty member. The practice of “direct admission,” a policy by which students are proactively admitted to college based …
The UW–Madison Graduate School has selected four project teams to receive funding through the Partnership Program in Graduate Excellence to bolster partnerships with Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs). Among the funded initiatives is a School of Education partnership with Northeastern Illinois University. The program, now in its second year, seeks to create long-term and mutually beneficial …
UW–Madison’s Anjalé (AJ) Welton, the Rupple-Bascom Professor of Education and chair of the School of Education’s Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis, has been appointed as co-editor of Educational Researcher (ER), the premier journal of the American Educational Research Association. Welton will join a new team of editors including Editor-in-Chief Nicholas Bowman (University of …
The UW–Madison School of Education is bringing another talented and diverse cohort of new faculty members to campus for the start of the upcoming fall semester. To welcome these newest members of our community — and to reconnect with colleagues and celebrate the start of the upcoming 2023-24 academic year — the School is hosting …
WIDA founder and director Tim Boals appeared on Wisconsin Public Radio’s “The Morning Show” recently to talk about support and resources for educating multilingual learners. WIDA, housed in the UW–Madison School of Education’s Wisconsin Center for Education Research (WCER), provides language development resources to those who support the academic success of multilingual learners — who …
By Kari Dickinson On a Friday afternoon in late February, a couple dozen educators gathered in the gym of Van Hise Elementary School in Madison for a dance workshop with Chell Parkins. On their professional development day, the educators — all teachers of K-5 music or K-8 physical education in the Madison Metropolitan School District …
By Laurel White Her son and his friends called her “Dr. J.” It was a nod to the nickname of an all-star basketball player at the time, Julius Erving, but it was also an acknowledgement of Jenny Alexander’s incredible perseverance and achievement. Alexander was a young, single mom in the 1970s who pushed through a …
“Ms. Holmes and Ms. Watson – Apt. 2B” By Kate Hamill, cheerfully desecrating the stories of Sir Arthur Conan DoyleSept. 14-24 An irreverent, darkly comic, modern take on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s famous sleuth and sidekick, this fast-paced romp re-examines the world’s most famous detective with a bold new feminist lens. In this highly theatrical …
School of Education faculty members provide valuable perspectives on contentious advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) relevant to educators By Laurel White As recent advancements in artificial intelligence have spurred headlines and stoked heated conversations around the world, faculty from the School of Education have offered expert insight on what these developments could mean — for …