School districts across the state and around the country are struggling to find enough qualified teachers — and these staffing challenges are growing. In an effort to help bolster Wisconsin’s teacher workforce and give the state’s schoolchildren access to the high-quality educators they deserve, the UW–Madison School of Education launched a bold new program Tuesday, …
Nancy Kendall, a professor and chair of the School of Education’s Department of Educational Policy Studies, is one of 11 UW–Madison faculty members being honored this year with a Vilas Faculty Mid-Career Investigator Award. This award recognizes research and teaching excellence, and provides flexible research funding for three years. Vilas professorships and awards are supported …
UW–Madison’s Walter Stern was quoted in a recent report from FOX 8 in New Orleans about a group of people who pulled a bust of John McDonogh out of the Mississippi River. The statue had previously been torn down and dumped into the river by another group. Stern, an assistant professor of history and educational policy studies …
By University Communications UW–Madison plans to begin fall classes as scheduled on Sept. 2 and offer in-person instruction in many courses until the Thanksgiving recess, the university announced on Wednesday, June 17. The course array and the modality of instruction will be determined by departments, working with the deans of their respective school or college. This will include course instruction plans for students not able to return to the …
The following message from Dean Diana Hess was emailed to students, staff, and faculty across the School of Education on Monday, June 15: Dear School of Education students, staff, and faculty, Many years ago, as a high school teacher, I was working to better understand why it is that people are often better able to …
UW-Madison’s Matthew Hora is quoted in a recent report from the Washington Post that’s headlined, “Corporate America is taking the internship online this summer. Some experiences can’t be replaced.” Hora is a faculty member with the School of Education’s Department of Educational Policy Studies and the director of the Center for Research on College-Workforce Transitions …
The National Academy of Education (NAEd) announced the recipients of its 2020 NAEd/Spencer Postdoctoral and Dissertation Fellowships, and Research Development Awards in a news release posted on Wednesday, June 10. And once again, scholars with UW–Madison’s School of Education were well represented in this annual announcement. Qing Liu, Huimin Wang, and Choua P. Xiong — each of …
Eleven faculty and instructors from across UW–Madison have been named Morgridge Fellows, including several with ties to the School of Education. The fellows were selected through a juried process to participate in the year-long learning community designed to further institutionalize and support community-engaged scholarship, defined as: teaching, research, and scholarly activities that are performed in equitable, …
UW-Madison’s Matthew Hora was interviewed for a recent New York Times report headlined, “Another Casualty of the Coronavirus: Summer Internships.” Hora is an assistant professor with our Department of Educational Policy Studies and the director of the Center for Research on College-Workforce Transitions (CCWT). The Times reports how for “millions of college students, internships can …
UW-Madison’s Matthew Hora and Zi Chen received a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to study online internships amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. This award, for $145,000, is part of the NSF’s COVID-19 rapid grants program. Hora, the principal investigator on the grant, is an assistant professor with the School of Education’s Department of Educational …