Category: Department of Educational Policy Studies

UW-Madison’s Bianca Baldridge recently published a paper in the journal Race Ethnicity and Education that’s titled, “Negotiating anti-black racism in ‘liberal’ contexts: the experiences of black youth workers in community-based educational spaces.” Baldridge explains in the paper’s abstract that her research “challenges liberal and progressive claims of social justice in education within predominantly white cities …

UW-Madison’s Diana Rodríguez Gómez earlier this spring was named the winner of the 2020 Consortium of Latin American Studies Programs (CLASP) Junior Faculty Teaching Award. Rodríguez Gómez is a native of Colombia who became an assistant professor with the School of Education’s Department of Educational Policy Studies in January 2019. Her research agenda engages with the fields of anthropology …

A team of early math education experts from across the country has pooled its expertise to develop a set of free, research-based learn-at-home materials geared toward children from birth to age 8. The “At-Home Early Math Learning Kit for Families,” created by the DREME Network’s Family Math team, is especially valuable as many people are …

By Doug Erickson, University Communications There was a time when UW–Madison junior Tina Marshalek hesitated to tell people she was a non-traditional transfer student. Or that she had been homeschooled from kindergarten through 12th grade. She didn’t want people judging her based on preconceptions, and she was a little unsure herself what to make of her …

UW-Madison’s Erica Turner, a faculty member with the School of Education’s Department of Educational Policy Studies, recently wrote a new book, “Suddenly Diverse: How School Districts Manage Race and Inequality.” Turner’s work notes that American public schools have been enrolling more students identified as black, Latinx, American Indian, and Asian than white students over the past …