The New York Times featured a story recently, headlined “Repeat After Her: There is No Dance Without Dance Education,” about UW–Madison alumna and dance advocate, educator, and founder of the Dance Education Laboratory Jody Gottfried Arnhold. “In dance education circles, her first name is enough,” reads the article. “Everyone knows Jody. They call her the …
UW–Madison’s Nick Hillman, a professor with the School of Education’s Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis, shared his expertise with Wisconsin Public Radio (WPR) recently in its segment, “How Biden’s SAVE plan fits could affect student loans.” Hillman is an expert in how finance, policy, and geography shape educational opportunities, and is the director …
Madison’s longest running African-American owned magazine, UMOJA, recently published a feature on UW–Madison’s Diego Román that was written by Erika Bullock, his colleague in the School of Education’s Department of Curriculum and Instruction. Román is an assistant professor of bilingual/bicultural education in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction. He is interested in the intersection of …
UW–Madison’s Taylor Odle spoke with Wisconsin Public Radio (WPR) recently about a new bill proposed by state Republicans that would guarantee Wisconsin students ranked in the top 5 percent of their high school class admission to UW System schools. Odle’s research focuses on the economics of education and education policy, with a specific focus on …
Madison365’s 2023 list of “Wisconsin’s 40 Most Influential Asian American Leaders” highlights two people with ties to the UW–Madison School of Education. Madison365, a nonprofit online news publication, has published annual power lists recognizing Wisconsin leaders from different racial and ethnic groups since 2015. The purpose of the lists is to “highlight the beauty of …
UW–Madison alumna Dawn B. Crim was recently named UW–Green Bay’s new vice chancellor for inclusivity and community engagement. Crim earned her PhD from the School of Education’s Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis in 2021. She also served as the School of Education’s associate dean for external relations from 2011 to 2017. According to …
UW–Madison’s Nick Hillman, a professor with the School of Education’s Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis, shared his expertise with Wisconsin Public Radio (WPR), the Capital Times, and three other local media outlets in response to the Supreme Court’s recent rejection of President Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan. Hillman is an expert in …
Diversity statistics collected by UW–Madison’s Cooperative Children’s Book Center (CCBC) were highlighted last month in a report from Madison’s local NBC affiliate, NBC15. The CCBC’s newest data show that 45 percent of books sent to the CCBC and published last year were written by people of color, while 35 percent were about people of color. …
The Capital Times recently took a look at the Supreme Court’s decision to rule race-conscious admissions as unconstitutional, a move, the newspaper reports, that “(effectively ends) affirmative action policies that aimed to diversify enrollment at colleges and universities across the nation.” To help put this topic in perspective, the Capital Times reached out to Anthony …
UW–Madison’s Simon Goldberg, an assistant professor in the School of Education’s Department of Counseling Psychology and a core faculty member at the Center for Healthy Minds, recently offered his expertise on how mindfulness can support injury recovery to Outside magazine. In the article, Goldberg points out worry and negative thinking can impede the process of …