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, …
Novelist and writer James Patterson gave a shoutout to the UW–Madison School of Education Wisconsin Teacher Pledge recently while a guest on Wisconsin Public Radio’s “The Morning Show.” Patterson, the world’s bestselling author, appeared on the show to discuss his newest book, “The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians: True Stories of the Magic of Reading,” …
UW–Madison’s Elizabeth Graue is receiving the Distinguished Contribution to Research Award from the American Educational Research Association’s (AERA) Early Education/Child Development (EECD) special interest group (SIG). Graue is a professor emerita with the School of Education’s Department of Curriculum and Instruction. She started her career as a kindergarten teacher and is the former director of …
Thirteen faculty members have been chosen to receive this year’s Distinguished Teaching Awards, an honor given out since 1953 to recognize some of the university’s finest educators. A ceremony will take place at 5 p.m. April 16 in the Great Hall of the Memorial Union to honor the recipients. Among this year’s honorees are two faculty members …
The 2023-24 Teaching Assistant Awards have been announced, and among the 31 honorees are seven exceptional graduate students from the School of Education. UW–Madison employs over 2,300 teaching assistants (TAs) across a wide range of disciplines. Their contributions to the classroom, lab, and field are essential to the university’s educational mission. To recognize the excellence …
Jessica Stovall has received the 2024 Dissertation Award from the American Educational Research Association’s (AERA) Critical Educators for Social Justice special interest group. The Dissertation Award recognizes doctoral-level research that utilizes critical theory and critical methodologies. Stovall’s winning dissertation is titled, “‘We’re part of something way bigger’: The transformative potential of Black teacher fugitive space.” …