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 …
UW–Madison’s Matthew Hora shared his expertise with The Washington Post for their recent story, “Unpaid internships have been criticized for years. Why are they still around?” Hora is an associate professor of adult and higher education with the Division of Continuing Studies and with the School of Education’s Department of Educational Policy Studies. He is …
UW–Madison’s Cooperative Children’s Book Center (CCBC) was highlighted in May and again in June by Publisher’s Weekly (PW), which “offers feature articles and news on all aspects of the book business, bestsellers lists in a number of categories, and industry statistics.” Administratively housed in the School of Education and also supported by the Wisconsin Department …
School of Education faculty member David Williamson Shaffer recently offered his expertise on artificial intelligence in the classroom to a news story aired on WAOW-TV in Wausau. Shaffer is the Sears Bascom Professor of Learning Analytics and the Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of Learning Sciences in the Department of Educational Psychology at the UW–Madison School …
John Rudolph, a Vilas Distinguished Achievement professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction in the UW–Madison School of Education, recently appeared on a New Books Network podcast to discuss his new book, “Why We Teach Science (and Why We Should).” In the book, Rudolph argues decades of misconceptions have fueled the idea that science …
UW–Madison’s Nick Hillman, a professor with the School of Education’s Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis, shared his expertise with Marketplace and ABC News earlier this month. Hillman is an expert in how finance, policy, and geography shape educational opportunities, and is the director of the university’s Student Success Through Applied Research (SSTAR) Lab. …
By WCER Communications On May 1, in honor of School Principals Day and the 20th anniversary of the Institute of Education Sciences (IES), producers of the blog Inside IES Research asked UW−Madison education professors Rich Halverson and Carolyn Kelley to write a guest post describing their WCER project: Comprehensive Assessment of Leadership for Learning (CALL), along with Mark Blitz, project director for CALL …
A School of Education faculty member’s groundbreaking work in the field of forgiveness science is featured in the latest issue of UW–Madison’s award-winning alumni magazine, On Wisconsin. On Wisconsin is printed quarterly and mailed to nearly 400,000 homes. In print since 1899, it remains one of the largest-circulation alumni magazines in the country. The feature …