UW–Madison’s Stacey Lee was selected as a 2021 Fellow of the American Educational Research Association (AERA). Lee is the Frederick Erickson WARF Professor in the School of Education’s Department of Educational Policy Studies. Lee is among 19 scholars who were selected this year as AERA Fellows on the basis of their distinguished and sustained research achievements. …
The latest edition of Learning Connections, a magazine for alumni and friends of the UW–Madison School of Education, is now posted online. The Summer 2021 issue centers on the challenges brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic and the many lessons learned. The cover story, headlined “Within every challenge, an opportunity,” spotlights how COVID-19 presented an unexpected crisis. But …
A book by UW–Madison’s Elizabeth Hauck, a doctoral student in educational policy studies and history, was reviewed by the New York Times. Hauck’s book, titled “Home Made: A Story of Grief, Groceries, Showing Up — and What We Make When We Make Dinner,” is a memoir about the years she spent running a once-a-week cooking club …
Four people with ties to the UW–Madison School of Education are leading a project to further understand and reduce inequalities in higher education among Hmong Americans. The project is one of 15 chosen to receive grants through the through UW–Madison’s Understanding and Reducing Inequalities Initiative. The project, titled “Understanding and reducing inequalities in higher education: Lessons …
Three individuals from the UW–Madison School of Education have been awarded prestigious fellowships from the National Academy of Education (NAEd) and the Spencer Foundation. Diana Rodríguez-Gómez, an assistant professor in the School of Education’s Department of Educational Policy Studies, has been named a 2021 NAEd/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellow. Rodríguez-Gómez’s scholarship examines trans-local processes of state-building and education policymaking …
UW–Madison’s Linn Posey-Maddox, Maxine McKinney de Royston, and Rachel A. Johnson are among the authors of an article published in the Harvard Educational Review that is titled, “No Choice is the ‘Right’ Choice: Black Parents’ Educational Decision-Making in Their Search for a ‘Good’ School.” Posey-Maddox is an associate professor in the School of Education’s Department of …
Seven UW–Madison students pursuing degrees within the School of Education received a Leadership Certificate from the Center for Leadership and Involvement during the 2020-21 academic year. The students who were recognized, and their fields of study, include: Additionally, Shehrose Charania was selected as this year’s recipient of the Anne Louise Martino Women’s Leadership Award. Since its creation in 2002, the Leadership …
Regina Fuller is one of two recipients of the Deborah A. Hobbins Graduate Student Award in Reproductive Health, Rights, and Justice from UW–Madison’s Center for Research on Gender and Women. Fuller was recognized for her project, “Debating sexuality: Sexual ideologies, gender, and education policy in Ghana.” Fuller is a doctoral candidate in the School of Education’s Department of …
By Kristina LeVan, University Communications In an episode of Community Chats, University of Wisconsin–Madison Community Relations Director Brenda González talks with professor emerita Gloria Ladson-Billings about her work with community-university engagement and the impact of COVID-19 on Black and Latinx communities in Madison and around the country. Ladson-Billings is the former Kellner Family Distinguished Professor …
The School of Education’s Linn Posey-Maddox and David Williamson Shaffer are among 33 UW–Madison faculty who have been awarded fellowships from the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) for 2021-22. Posey-Maddox, an associate professor in the Department of Educational Policy Studies, was awarded an H.I. Romnes Faculty Fellowship. This award recognizes faculty within their first six years …