A new School of Education faculty member, David Klingbeil, is a recipient the prestigious Lightner Witmer Award for early career scholarship from Division 16 of the American Psychological Association. Klingbeil is an assistant professor with the Department of Educational Psychology. According to the association’s website: “Each year the Division of School Psychology presents the Lightner Witmer …
By Karen Rivedal, WCER Communications The Madison Education Partnership (MEP) will release a report by the end of August detailing what worked and what didn’t at the close of a two-year project to help teachers in the Madison Metropolitan School District’s four-year-old kindergarten (4K) program strengthen the depth and rigor of its instruction, especially in math. The …
UW–Madison’s Gloria Ladson-Billings and John Diamond said we shouldn’t rush to “go back to normal” this school year, because of the growing inequities that students face in the school system. Ladson-Billings is a professor emerita with the School of Education, and Diamond holds the Kellner Family Distinguished Chair in Urban Education with the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis. Ladson-Billings …
National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered” program sought out the expertise of UW–Madison’s Julie Mead for a report on how parents of special education students are advocating for their children who have lost access to essential programming and services due to schools going remote during the COVID-19 pandemic. While distance learning has been difficult for students generally, …
UW–Madison’s Kathryn Moeller is the author of an article published in the journal Educational Researcher, titled “Accounting for the Corporate: An Analytic Framework for Understanding Corporations in Education.” “Corporations have become one of the dominant institutions of our time with extensive power and influence over educational systems around the world,” writes Moeller. “In size and profit, many …
The UW–Madison School of Education is welcoming 16 new faculty members to campus during the upcoming 2020-21 academic year, which is one of the largest cohorts to sign on with the School since its founding in 1930. “What makes our School so unique and outstanding is the depth and breadth of outstanding faculty members across …
UW–Madison’s Craig Albers shared his thoughts on the stress parents are experiencing making school decisions this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic in a news report for WSAW-TV in Wausau. Albers, an associate professor with the School of Education’s Department of Educational Psychology and co-director of the Rural Education Research and Implementation Center (RERIC), spoke about the unique concerns that …
By Karen Rivedal, WCER Communications As all aspects of American society face a national reckoning on racism and police brutality, new UW−Madison research is providing a playbook that employers and higher education professionals can use to help Black student interns cope with the continuing public protests against anti-Black violence. Recognizing the “psychological tax” borne by …
A recent article in the Boston Globe reporting on the trend of families leaving public schools — and instead enrolling their children in private schools, home schooling, or forming “learning pods” this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic — utilizes thoughts from UW–Madison’s John Diamond. The article notes the trend may have heavy consequences for public …
UW–Madison’s Maxine McKinney de Royston is the lead author of an article published in the American Educational Research Journal (AERJ), titled “‘I’m a Teacher, I’m Gonna Always Protect You’: Understanding Black Educators’ Protection of Black Children.” The article, which McKinney de Royston co-authored with Tia C. Madkins (University of Texas at Austin), Jarvis R. Givens (Harvard University), …