University of Wisconsin–Madison

Author: nfetter

UW–Madison ties for No. 1 ranking among public schools of education

U.S. News and World Report released its 2020 Best Education Graduate Schools rankings on March 12, and UW–Madison is home to the highest-rated public school of education in the nation, a distinction it is sharing this year with the University of California-Los Angeles. UW–Madison’s School of Education is No. 3 overall, trailing only Ivy League privates Harvard …

Regional High School Dance Festival coming to UW–Madison campus March 15-19

Sponsored by the National High School Dance Festival (NHSDF), this festival will be filled with performances, workshops and lectures from faculty, students, and professional artists. There will also be classes offered in contemporary technique, ballet, social and popular dance forms, somatic practice, and more. This festival will also allow students to audition for college, university, …

Stern speaks with NPR affiliate about Milwaukee school desegregation program

Stern is an assistant professor with the School of Education’s Department of Educational Policy Studies. ​He is a historian of education and the author of a 2018 book titled, “Race and Education in New Orleans: Creating the Segregated City, 1764-1960.” WUWM’s report gives background on the Chapter 220 program, which fostered some integration in certain schools, …

UW–Madison alums Hammock, Frazier teaming up at Northern Illinois University

Hammock earned his master’s degree from the School of Education’s Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis in 2005. Frazier earned a master’s from the School of Education’s Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis in 2015. WREX-TV/Ch. 13, Rockford, Illinois’ NBC affiliate, notes the big roles the two alumni will play at NIU. Not …

Educational Policy Studies hosting graduate student symposium March 8

This year’s event is titled, “Schooling as Violence: The (im)Possibilities of ‘Equity’ and ‘Justice’ in Education.” This year’s keynote, which begins at 1 p.m. in the Education Building’s Wisconsin Idea Room, is being delivered by kihana miraya ross, an assistant professor from Northwestern University. Ross’ keynote is titled, “Wake Work in Education: Fugitive Resistance in …