Their paper, “Reconsidering College Student Employability: A Cultural Analysis of Educator and Employer Conceptions of Workplace Skills,” appeared in the Harvard Educational Review. Their research article aims to analyze how educators in higher education institutions and employers think about important skills students need to enter the workforce. Benbow and Hora suggest that part of the …
Butler, an alumnus of UW–Madison, tells the Cap Times that he has always had big ambitions. The newspaper report recalls Butler’s childhood, remembering the days he spent on the farm with his grandmother, ‘aspiring to be the first black artist in the world.’ Butler received his master of fine arts degree from the School of …
Hess is co-chairing this group with Deborah Kerr, president-elect of AASA, the national School Superintendents Association, and current superintendent of the Brown Deer School District. The UW System Task Force for Advancing Teachers and School Leaders in the State of Wisconsin was announced Friday in this news release. The task force will have eight members in all and …
As Madison365.com explains: “A large delegation of women from around the country — the Associated Press estimated 100,000 marchers — took part in National Women’s March in Washington, D.C. on Saturday. Leading the march, the very first group in line, was a new international coalition of over 100 Jewish Women of Color. And leading the …
Kowalczyk is an alumna of UW–Madison, having earned a reading specialist license through the School of Education in 2005. Kowalczyk was recognized for her work to bring an international perspective to her classrooms and community. “Developing global competence takes time. Sandra captures and sustains middle school students’ attention through global literature and face-to-face opportunities to …
Among many faculty members interviewed is UW-Madison’s Jerlando Jackson, who is the Vilas Distinguished Professor of Higher Education and chair of the School of Education’s Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis. Jackson is also the director and chief research scientist of Wisconsin’s Equity and Inclusion Laboratory within the Wisconsin Center for Education Research, and a faculty affiliate …
Kha is pursuing a master’s degree from the School of Education’s No. 1-ranked Department of Curriculum and Instruction. Kha previously earned an undergraduate degree at UW–Madison in secondary English education in 2015. Brava explains how “Doua Kha has long struggled to reconcile being queer with being Hmong. Kha, who uses the pronouns they, their and …
The report begins: “Researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison are looking to school districts such as Baraboo for insight into what it’s like to teach in rural areas and how to better connect university graduates to those schools.” The article explains how the Wisconsin Center for Education Research (WCER) started a “Teacher Speakout!” program in …
Registration for all UW–Madison students opens Jan. 25 and there are more than 75 volunteering opportunities to choose from. Badger Volunteers is a semester-long program that pairs teams of students with community organizations (schools, nonprofits, municipalities) to volunteer one to four hours each week at the same organization. The program is designed to foster meaningful and …
Ladson-Billings is a professor emerita with the School of Education’s Department of Department of Curriculum and Instruction. Ladson-Billings, who also was a faculty affiliate with the departments of Educational Policy Studies, Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis, and Afro American Studies, is the current president of the National Academy of Education. Her research examines the pedagogical …