UW–Madison’s Nicholas Hillman was recently interviewed by Marketplace for a report about the Biden administration’s newest attempt to relieve student debt. The Marketplace report, headlined “Biden administration tries again to relieve student debt,” looks at President Joe Biden’s debt cancellation plan and discusses the issue of student debt with professionals across the country including Hillman, a professor …
By Laurel White Resources and programs that would effectively close opportunity gaps for primary and secondary school students in North Carolina would require a roughly 200% increase in funding, according to a new report co-authored by a School of Education faculty member. Christopher Saldaña, an assistant professor in the School of Education’s Department of Educational …
Nineteen UW–Madison community members were recognized in Madison365’s annual list of “Wisconsin’s Most Influential Asian American Leaders” for 2024, including four who are current and former UW–Madison School of Education students and employees. Madison365, a nonprofit online news publication, has published annual power lists recognizing Wisconsin leaders from different racial and ethnic groups since 2015. …
The Wisconsin State Journal recently spotlighted a new collaboration between the UW–Madison School of Education and three Wisconsin school districts — Madison, Lake Mills, and Middleton-Cross Plains — which aims to transform their current employees into future school leaders. Through the District Leadership Preparation Pipeline (DLPP) program, a group of Wisconsin educators will start a 14-month …
UW–Madison graduate student CJ Greer has been awarded the Arnold L. Mitchem Dissertation Fellowship by Marquette University. The fellowship, which aims to increase the presence of currently underrepresented racial and cultural groups in the U.S. professoriate, provides one year of support for advanced doctoral students at other U.S. universities. Fellows will be in residence at …
A book by UW–Madison’s Tony DelaRosa, “Teaching the Invisible Race: Embodying a Pro-Asian American Lens in Schools,” has recently received two separate honors. “Teaching the Invisible Race” was named a Silver Medal winner in the Independent Publisher Book Awards’ category of Education — Commentary/Theory. The work was also named a Next Generation Indie Book Awards …
By Kari Dickinson To help identify and nurture future school leaders, the University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Education is partnering with three Wisconsin school districts to launch the District Leadership Preparation Pipeline (DLPP) program. This innovative program aims to transform 25 current school district employees into highly effective school leaders by August 2025. The DLPP …
UW–Madison’s Kevin Lawrence Henry Jr., an assistant professor in the School of Education’s Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis, was recently a guest on the PBS Wisconsin program, “Why Race Matters,” discussing the impact of race when it comes to COVID-19 and educational disparities. Henry is a scholar and public education advocate whose research …
A project out of Wisconsin’s Equity and Inclusion Laboratory (Wei LAB) that aims to more fully engage women and people of color in engineering was featured in a recent Forbes article that is headlined, “REVIIS and the Path to Inclusive Engineering.” UW–Madison’s Brian Burt, an associate professor in the School of Education’s Department of Educational …
UW–Madison graduate student Tony DelaRosa was called on by NBC News recently to reflect on the legacy of the 2004 blockbuster hit, “Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle,” during its 20th anniversary year. Released in July 2004, the film is one of the only mainstream movies of its decade to star two Asian American …