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 …
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 …
Each May, the UW–Madison Division of the Arts celebrates artistic achievement, recognizes service to the arts, and supports arts research by bestowing the Awards in the Creative Arts. And once again, artists associated with the School of Education were recipients of these honors. Fred Stonehouse received the Creative Arts Award and Leslie Smith III was recognized …
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 …
UW–Madison’s Kathryn Moeller co-authored an op-ed that was recently published by The Chronicle of Philanthropy headlined, “Gates Foundation’s tactics to remake public education during pandemic are undemocratic.” Moeller is an assistant professor with the School of Education’s Department of Educational Policy Studies, and the author of “The Gender Effect: Capitalism, Feminism, and the Corporate Politics of …
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 …
Highly regarded School of Education faculty members Li Chiao-Ping, Robert Enright, and Stacey Lee were appointed to prestigious WARF Named Professorships, UW-Madison announced on May 12. Overall, 32 members of the UW-Madison faculty have been awarded faculty fellowships for 2020-21. The awardees span the four divisions on campus: arts and humanities, physical sciences, social sciences, and biological …
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 …