Five extraordinary members of the UW–Madison School of Education faculty have been honored during the last year with awards supported by the estate of professor, U.S. Senator, and UW Regent William F. Vilas (1840-1908). Nancy Kendall, a professor in the Department of Educational Policy Studies, was named to a Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professorship. This award …
By Laurel White Education data can be harnessed to promote groundbreaking and energizing movements toward play, creativity, and social justice in the classroom, according to a new book from a School of Education faculty member. The book, “The Left Hand of Data,” was released this week by The MIT Press. It is the latest release from …
By Laurel White A popular assessment of literacy and numeracy in Kenya does more to advance a global education reform agenda than serve the needs of individual schools or students, according to a new paper from a School of Education faculty member. The article, published in Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, argues the …
The Wisconsin State Journal utilizes the expertise of UW–Madison’s Mariana Castro in a recent article examining the impact of a new law in Wisconsin that overhauls reading education. The law, Act 20, aims to improve low reading proficiency rates by requiring instruction to be grounded in “the science of reading,” the article explains. Among other …
UW–Madison’s Peter McDonald discussed his new book, “Run and Jump: The Meaning of the 2D Platformer,” in an interview on the New Books Network recently. The book examines how abstract design decisions in 2D platform games, such as Donkey Kong and Super Mario Bros., continue to captivate audiences and create “rich worlds of meaning” for …
By Laurel White Erika Silva-Singh and Maddy Rauls had two very different paths to teaching, but neither would have been possible without the UW–Madison School of Education Wisconsin Teacher Pledge. The program that pays the equivalent of in-state tuition and fees, testing, and licensing costs for students in UW–Madison’s teacher education programs has been extended through the …
By Todd Finkelmeyer Thanks to the generosity of its alumni and friends, the UW–Madison School of Education on Thursday night announced an $11 million investment to support Wisconsin educators. These funds will extend the innovative UW–Madison School of Education Wisconsin Teacher Pledge program; invest in the Early Career Teaching Institute; and bolster the vital work …
UW–Madison Professor Emerita Gloria Ladson-Billings will deliver the AERA Distinguished Lecture at the 2024 Annual Meeting, to be held April 11–14 in Philadelphia. Her lecture, titled “‘Not Yet at Plessy’: 70 Years Post-Brown,” will begin at 11:25 a.m. ET on Friday, April 12. Ladson-Billings, the former Kellner Family Distinguished Chair in Urban Education with the School …
UW–Madison’s School of Education is the No. 1 school of education in the United States, according to the 2024 U.S. News & World Report Best Education Graduate Schools rankings released on Tuesday. It marks the first time the School of Education has received the first-place ranking from U.S. News & World Report, though it has been highly …
UW–Madison alumna Min Yu has received the 2024 Best Paper Award from the Comparative and International Education Society’s (CIES) East Asia special interest group (SIG). Yu’s paper, “Reimagining education and community mobilization in China’s migrant communities: towards an ‘Asia as method’ framework,” was published in the International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education. According to the abstract, …