Diverse Issues in Higher Education utilized the expertise of UW–Madison’s Jerlando Jackson in an article examining the causes of the recent protests in Kenosha, Wisconsin, following the shooting of a Black man, 29-year-old Jacob Blake, by a police officer on Aug. 23. Jackson is a Vilas Distinguished Professor and chair of the School of Education’s Department of Educational …
A conversation with the School of Education’s LaVar Charleston was featured in the Fall 2020 issue of the Wisconsin Alumni Association’s On Wisconsin magazine. Charleston is the School’s associate dean for equity, diversity, and inclusion, and a clinical professor with the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis. In the Q&A feature, headlined “Systemic Racism Does Indeed Exist,” …
Wisconsin’s Equity and Inclusion Laboratory (Wei LAB) and the Todd Anthony Bell National Resource Center on the African American Male at Ohio State University have announced plans for the 2020 International Colloquium on Black Males in Education (ICBME). The event will be held virtually this year, with content and events happening each Tuesday in October. This year’s colloquium …
UW–Madison’s Brett Nachman co-authored an article in the Review of Higher Education, titled “An Exploration of Actionable Insights Regarding College Students with Autism: A Review of the Literature.” Nachman is a doctoral candidate in the School of Education’s Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis. His collaborators on the article include Bradley E. Cox, Kerry Thompson, Steven Dawson, Jeffrey …
UW–Madison’s Gloria Ladson-Billings and John Diamond said we shouldn’t rush to “go back to normal” this school year, because of the growing inequities that students face in the school system. Ladson-Billings is a professor emerita with the School of Education, and Diamond holds the Kellner Family Distinguished Chair in Urban Education with the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis. Ladson-Billings …
National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered” program sought out the expertise of UW–Madison’s Julie Mead for a report on how parents of special education students are advocating for their children who have lost access to essential programming and services due to schools going remote during the COVID-19 pandemic. While distance learning has been difficult for students generally, …
UW–Madison’s Kathryn Moeller is the author of an article published in the journal Educational Researcher, titled “Accounting for the Corporate: An Analytic Framework for Understanding Corporations in Education.” “Corporations have become one of the dominant institutions of our time with extensive power and influence over educational systems around the world,” writes Moeller. “In size and profit, many …
The UW–Madison School of Education is welcoming 16 new faculty members to campus during the upcoming 2020-21 academic year, which is one of the largest cohorts to sign on with the School since its founding in 1930. “What makes our School so unique and outstanding is the depth and breadth of outstanding faculty members across …
A recent article in the Boston Globe reporting on the trend of families leaving public schools — and instead enrolling their children in private schools, home schooling, or forming “learning pods” this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic — utilizes thoughts from UW–Madison’s John Diamond. The article notes the trend may have heavy consequences for public …
Mollie McQuillan, an assistant professor with the School of Education’s Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis, is one of three UW–Madison investigators who have been awarded a 2020 Advancing Health Equity and Diversity (AHEAD) Pilot Program grant. McQuillan was awarded a grant for her research project investigating the work experiences and health of trans …