University of Wisconsin–Madison

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Spring 2019 UW–Madison Artist in Residence Newsome to offer course on multimedia collage

First Wave Learning Community, the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, and the School of Education’s Dance Department will be co-sponsoring Newsome’s residency. Newsome’s work highlights the contributions of marginalized communities, and discusses as well as questions the social hierarchy. His work is multidisciplinary: Newsome combines a variety of practices — like collage, sculpture, film, dance, …

Tochon visits China to share thoughts on innovation and development in Chinese universities

UW–Madison’s François Victor Tochon was invited and greeted as “a representative of Wisconsin’s academic talent.” Tochon is a professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction in the School of Education, and leads the World Language Education Program. At this conference, experts were asked to develop policy recommendations to “support Chinese talent policy in Henan …

Underwood speaks with Education Week about state’s future with Evers as governor

The article begins: “Wisconsin’s top school official will now take over as that state’s governor, and that could mean increases in public school funding, along with better relations with teachers and organized labor.” Among the experts providing insight into the results of this contested election is UW–Madison’s Julie Underwood, the Susan Engeleiter Professor of Education …

Apple delivers two lectures overseas on ‘The Challenges of Critical Education’

Apple is the John Bascom Professor Emeritus of Curriculum and Instruction, and Educational Policy Studies. Apple delivered the Sara Fielden Memorial Lecture on “The Challenges of Critical Education” at the University of Manchester in England. He then went on to give the Studia Generalia Lecture on “The Challenges of Critical Education” at The University of the Arts …

The Guardian utilizes expertise of UW–Madison’s Apple to examine rise of home-schooling

The deck headline explains: “Exams, rules, timetables: do teachers know what’s best for children? Increasing numbers of British parents don’t think so.” The Guardian reports: “The home-schooling movement emerged in the 1970s, when it was considered a fringe pursuit. Today, it is probably the fastest-growing form of education in the UK. The number of home-schooled …

Wilkerson, Leko secure $2.5 million grant to launch special education teacher residency program

Wilkerson is a professor with the School of Education’s Department of Rehabilitation Psychology and Special Education (RPSE) and the faculty director of the School’s new Teacher Education Center. Leko is an associate professor and the department chair of RPSE. “Special educators are sorely needed across Wisconsin — with the need particularly acute in small, rural …

UW–Madison alum Cosner directing UIC’s Center for Urban Education Leadership

She is a professor of educational organization and leadership in the Department of Educational Policy Studies. Cosner also recently accepted the position as director of UIC’s Center for Urban Education Leadership. Cosner received her Ph.D. from the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis in 2005. Her research interests include organizational change; school reform and …

2018 M List features several with ties to School of Education who are innovating in the arts

And several of those being recognized have ties to UW–Madison’s School of Education. Madison Magazine reports: “Cities often recognize the best and brightest. They promote the most influential, the most successful, the most powerful and the most glamorous. Yawn. Madison is home to a strikingly rich population of innovators, creators, doers and dreamers. They are …