“The obstacles are numerous and challenging, but when refugees receive support, they are able to resettle and access higher education,” says Matthew Wolfgram, a senior researcher at the Wisconsin Center for Education Research (WCER) in the School of Education. “After all the struggles that refugees go through to get here, we need to set up a system to support their higher …
Among the experts utilized to put this topic in perspective is UW–Madison’s Walter Stern, an assistant professor with the School of Education’s Department of Educational Policy Studies. Stern, a historian of education, is the author of a 2018 book titled, “Race & Education in New Orleans: Creating the Segregated City, 1764-1960.” He explains to WhoWhatWhy.org how cities, …
If you are an innovator or entrepreneur working to bring compelling solutions to the marketplace, Discovery to Product (D2P) wants to hear from you. This initiative is currently accepting applications for two spring semester courses to help campus innovators commercialize their groundbreaking ideas, Innovation to Market (I2M) and Igniter. All D2P programs are free and open to …
“There were very few practitioners and the field was growing very slowly,” Caroline Thompson, the university’s occupational therapy program director from 1945 to 1976, said in a 1996 interview. “Very few people knew of OT. There were only five or six training programs in the United States.” Most recently, in 2016, UW–Madison continued the tradition …
The award is given by the Cooperative Children’s Book Center (CCBC), a library housed within UW–Madison’s School of Education. “Little Brown” was edited by Allyn Johnston and published in the United States in 2018 by Beach Lane Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing. Do the other dogs not play with Little Brown because …
It was a major success for the Center for the Integration of Research, Teacher and Learning (CIRTL) to co-lead one of the winning awards. CIRTL is housed within the Wisconsin Center for Education Research, which is part of UW–Madison’s School of Education. But the CIRTL award was only half of the good news. Another WCER project …
The prize, from the Dance Studies Association, is awarded to the best book in dance published during the previous three calendar years. “I was lucky to receive a Kellett Mid-Career Award about five or six years ago that allowed me to focus on this book project for two years,” says Rosenberg, a professor who chairs …
The deck headline on this popular article, which appeared in the Feb. 26 issue, reads, “Requiring school uniforms may be less legally fraught than implementing a school dress code.” Underwood is the Susan Engeleiter Professor of Education Law, Policy and Practice, and the former dean of the School of Education. Underwood explains in this column …
Graue and her colleagues are collaborating on a project titled, “We Care for Dane Kids.” Last April, Schmidt Futures, a venture facility for public benefit founded by Eric and Wendy Schmidt, awarded UW–Madison $1.5 million to produce innovative ideas over two rounds of competition for increasing the net income of 10,000 Dane County families by 10 …
Rudolph is chair of the School of Education’s No. 1-ranked Department of Curriculum and Instruction. He talked about the changing pedagogical trends in American schools as they transitioned from rote learning in the 19th century to more progressive practices in the early 20th century focused on students’ everyday concerns. Then came the post-war focus on …