A new School of Education faculty member recently lent his expertise on direct admissions — a practice that allows high school graduates automatic admission to colleges and universities — to the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System, spurring stories in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and Wisconsin Public Radio. Taylor Odle, assistant professor …
WISC-TV/News 3’s Kathryn Merck spoke with UW–Madison’s Kimber Wilkerson about the looming teacher shortage that is affecting schools across the country, and how UW–Madison is helping to combat this issue through the School of Education Wisconsin Teacher Pledge Program. Wilkerson, the associate dean for teacher education in the School of Education, said there are many …
Faisal Abdu’Allah’s “Blu³eprint” was honored by Madison Magazine as this year’s “Best New Piece of Public Art” in the publication’s Best of Madison Editors’ Picks for 2022. The Editors’ Picks include 16 awardees hand selected by Madison Magazine editors in categories that were not up for voting in the publication’s annual Best of Madison Readers’ …
WBAY-TV / Ch. 2 in Green Bay utilized the expertise of UW–Madison’s Michael Apple for a report examining recent efforts to ban certain books from school libraries, or restrict access to them for younger students. Apple is the John Bascom Professor Emeritus of Curriculum and Instruction and Educational Policy Studies in the School of Education. …
A book by UW–Madison’s Julie M. Stamm, “The Brain on Youth Sports: The Science, the Myths, and the Future,” is number 29 on Library Journal’s list of academic best sellers from May 2021 through June 2022. Stamm is a clinical assistant professor in the School of Education’s Department of Kinesiology. Aimed at parents, coaches, youth …
The University of Michigan School of Education magazine published a profile of UW–Madison’s Brian Burt in a story spotlighting the school’s inaugural alumni award winners. Burt, who received an Emerging Leader Alumni Award, is currently an associate professor in the UW–Madison School of Education’s Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis. He earned his PhD from the University of Michigan in …
The New Yorker utilized the expertise of UW–Madison’s KT Horning, director emerita of the School of Education’s Cooperative Children’s Book Center, for a recent article exploring how children’s books with gay- or queer-centered themes have evolved through the years. The article, headlined “What Should a Queer Children’s Book Do?” also discusses how this burgeoning genre is …
Educational psychology professor Robert Enright joined Wisconsin Public Radio’s “Central Time” program last week to share his expertise about the scientific study of forgiveness. Enright, who holds the Aristotelian Professorship in Forgiveness Science in the School of Education’s Department of Educational Psychology, spoke about decades of research that have shown offering forgiveness to others reduces …
By Kari Dickinson The first major retrospective of work by UW–Madison’s Tom Jones, an award-winning contemporary photographer and professor of photography in the School of Education’s Art Department, will be on view at the Museum of Wisconsin Art (MOWA) in West Bend, Wisconsin, from July 23 – Oct. 9. Titled “Here We Stand,” the exhibition features 120 photographs from …
By Kari Dickinson A recent exhibition by UW–Madison alumnus Dale Chihuly was featured on PBS News Weekend in a segment that is headlined, “Glass artist Dale Chihuly’s exhibit takes inspiration from Arizona’s desert landscape.” Chihuly earned his MFA from the School of Education’s Art Department in 1967. The episode spotlights installations by Chihuly at Frank Lloyd Wright’s iconic winter home, Taliesin …