By Karla Weber Wandel UW–Madison’s Student Success Through Applied Research (SSTAR) Lab is launching a new project to connect Native students with financial support for postsecondary education. Though a growing number of state systems, public and private colleges and universities currently offer in-state tuition or tuition waivers to Native students based on their tribal affiliations, there is …
By Laurel White A new law review article from UW–Madison School of Education faculty uses a multidisciplinary approach to shed more light on the legal, social, and political discussions surrounding transgender students’ participation in elementary and high school athletics. Since 2021, lawmakers in more than 30 states have proposed bills mandating the exclusion of K-12 …
On Saturday, May 13, UW–Madison will celebrate its Spring 2023 Commencement. We reached out to a few of our graduating students from bachelor’s to PhDs to learn more about their favorite memories, advice for incoming students, and future plans. Scroll down to learn more about these graduates — who are just a handful of the …
Three people with ties to the UW–Madison School of Education have recently been elected to leadership positions for the Council or the Study of Community Colleges (CSCC) following the recent CSCC Conference that wrapped up in Chicago. Xueli Wang, the Barbara and Glenn Thompson Professor in Educational Leadership with the School of Education’s Department of …
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 …