By Karen Rivedal, WCER Communications Top officials in Uruguay are working with UW–Madison researchers who are expert in pulling rich new patterns of meaning about culture and human behavior from big data to assess and improve the South American country’s pioneering educational-technology innovation center, known as Ceibal. The trailblazing Uruguayan agency was born as the implementer of …
Pauline Ho, who today will be graduating with a doctoral degree from the School of Education, was recognized as one of UW–Madison’s spring 2024 “notable graduates” by University Communications. Ho “had just $3,000 in her bank account when she started her graduate work at UW–Madison. English was her fourth language, and neither of her parents had …
Five extraordinary members of the UW–Madison School of Education faculty have been honored during the last year with awards supported by the estate of professor, U.S. Senator, and UW Regent William F. Vilas (1840-1908). Nancy Kendall, a professor in the Department of Educational Policy Studies, was named to a Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professorship. This award …
David Kaplan, the Patricia Busk Professor of Quantitative Methods in the School of Education’s Department of Educational Psychology, has been honored with a Hilldale Professorship. Hilldale Professorships are given to faculty members who excel in scholarly activity, have records of outstanding research or creative work, and show promise of continued productivity. Recipients receive a salary …
UW–Madison’s School of Education is the No. 1 school of education in the United States, according to the 2024 U.S. News & World Report Best Education Graduate Schools rankings released on Tuesday. It marks the first time the School of Education has received the first-place ranking from U.S. News & World Report, though it has been highly …
UW–Madison alumna Rebecca Onken, a 2023 graduate of the School of Education’s MS Educational Psychology: Professional Educators (MSPE) program in the Department of Educational Psychology, is a recipient of a Teacher Fellowship award from the Herb Kohl Educational Foundation. Onken, a social studies teacher at Baraboo High School, is one of 100 educators from across Wisconsin who …
By Laurel White For the past 20 years, School of Education faculty member Sadhana Puntambekar has worked with teachers and middle school students across Wisconsin to build technology-enhanced learning environments for science learning and teaching, from solving complex design problems and writing about them to contrasting virtual and in-person lab experiments. Now, Puntambekar and a School of …
School of Education faculty member Robert Enright recently appeared on the BBC Radio 4 podcast “Sideways” to discuss the science of forgiveness. Enright, who holds the Aristotelian Professorship in Forgiveness Science in the School of Education’s Department of Educational Psychology, joined the podcast for a recent episode about the complicated dynamics of a grudge between …
UW–Madison’s Mitchell Nathan offered his expertise to Madison’s WKOW/Ch. 27 last month, sharing his thoughts on the influence of artificial intelligence (AI) in college admissions. Nathan is the Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor in Learning Sciences in the School of Education’s Department of Educational Psychology. “This tool is likely to be very useful for young people …
U.S. News and World Report on Feb. 7 released its annual rankings of Best Online Programs, and UW–Madison’s School of Education is No. 2 in the category of Best Online Master’s in Education Programs for Veterans. “I think part of what makes UW–Madison and the School of Education so attractive to veterans is what makes …