By Laurel White A new paper from researchers at the UW–Madison School of Education sheds more light on the heated political debate over teaching critical race theory in the United States by examining and characterizing the nature of pushback against the theory, highlighting similar episodes in history, and suggesting a path forward for educators and …
School of Education faculty member Suzanne Eckes offered her expertise on educators’ free speech rights to a recent story in The Washington Post. The story focused on an April decision by the Florida Board of Education forbidding the teaching of gender identity and sexuality in K-12 public schools. The story notes the new rule builds …
Two UW–Madison doctoral students with the School of Education’s Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis had their research highlighted in a recent report by Education Week. Narek Sahakyan, who is also a researcher at WIDA within the Wisconsin Center for Education Research, and Glenn Poole, a project assistant at WIDA, earlier this year published …
Colleen Larsen’s dissertation, “Dreams beyond Safety: A Critical Qualitative Investigation of the Experiences of Refugee Students at Two-Year Public Colleges in Wisconsin,” has won the Dissertation of the Year Award from the Council for the Study of Community Colleges (CSCC). Larsen earned her master’s from UW–Madison’s Global Higher Education program in the School of Education’s …
A recent Capital Times article, headlined “Asian students want their culture represented in Wisconsin classrooms,” quotes UW–Madison School of Education student Tony DelaRosa. The article asks multiple Wisconsin area students in the Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) community about their experiences learning (or not learning) about their culture in educational settings. DelaRosa, who is …
Two with School of Education ties — LaVar Charleston and Matthew Hora — express their thoughts on hopes for UW–Madison’s future in a recent article in On Wisconsin magazine. The story, titled “Into the Unknown” and written by John Allen, shares perspectives from multiple UW–Madison staff and faculty members about what the future of the …
For the 10th straight year, UW–Madison’s School of Education has been ranked among the top five education schools in the country, according to the 2023-24 U.S. News & World Report Best Graduate School Rankings released Tuesday. This year, the School of Education moved up two spots and landed in a tie for third. Additionally, 10 …
In 2021, Kevin Lawrence Henry Jr., an assistant professor in the School of Education’s Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis, was awarded a Theories of Blackness, Indigeneity, and Racialization in Research to Reduce Inequality in the Lives of Young People Writing Fellowship from the William T. Grant Foundation. The fellowship is a new, one-time …
UW–Madison’s Mollie McQuillan, an assistant professor with the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis, received the Emerging Scholar Award from the American Educational Research Association’s (AERA) Division A, which focuses on administration, organization, and leadership. McQuillan’s work examines the intersection of educational policy, social relationships, and health of gender-expansive students and educators. This award …
Madison365.com’s 2023 list of “Wisconsin’s 33 Most Influential Native American Leaders” highlights two alumni from the UW–Madison School of Education. Those featured on the list are “elected leaders, business leaders, and community leaders, doing difficult, important work, often in the face of discrimination and literally generations of oppression,” according to Madison365’s CEO and publisher, Henry …