Former UW System president Kevin Reilly wrote an article for the winter/spring 2020 issue of AACU’s Liberal Education, titled “Get a Job and Get a Life — with James Joyce: Why Reading the ‘Jocoserious’ Joyce Is Useful Fun.” In the article, Reilly reflects on his time as a professor teaching about James Joyce, and he …
By Chelsea Hylton, University Communications When high schools cut athletes from sports teams, it can be painful for those who didn’t make the team. But it also has wider implications, according to research from UW–Madison’s Mayrena Hernandez, a graduate student with the School of Education’s Department of Kinesiology. Larger schools seem to cut more athletes than smaller …
Nancy Kendall, a professor and chair of the School of Education’s Department of Educational Policy Studies, is one of 11 UW–Madison faculty members being honored this year with a Vilas Faculty Mid-Career Investigator Award. This award recognizes research and teaching excellence, and provides flexible research funding for three years. Vilas professorships and awards are supported …
Two groups in the School of Education are teaming up to share information from their on-campus colleagues with the broader, off-campus community. The Wisconsin Evaluation Collaborative and Everyday Academics are producing short videos that highlight UW–Madison researchers, faculty, staff, and students who share a few of the guiding principles about their work. So far, there …
UW-Madison alumna Liza Wiemer’s upcoming young adult (YA) novel, “The Assignment,” is being published for release on Aug. 25. Wiemer graduated from the School of Education in 1986 with a BS in elementary education. “The Assignment” follows a group of students as they must grapple with a school assignment that encourages intolerance and discrimination. As …
Five members of the School of Education community will be featured in the Wisconsin Public Education Network’s upcoming summer summit, “Public Education and Democracy,” which will take place virtually on Friday, July 24. John Diamond and Gloria Ladson-Billings are both keynote speakers for the event. Diamond is the Kellner Family Distinguished Chair in Urban Education …
By Lynn Armitage, WCER Communications In early April, at the height of the COVID-19 crisis, a call went out to a select community around the world to come together to make sense of a senseless pandemic. Forced lockdowns, the collapse of world economies, isolation, fears of infection, and mostly the hundreds of thousands of lives …
By Preston Schmitt, University Marketing for the Division of Continuing Studies Cindy Kuhrasch believes that movement is simply a means of learning. And with the pandemic putting a pause on organized activity, the head of UW–Madison’s Physical Education Teacher Education program is proving that movement can take just about any form – if you use your …
The Student Success Through Applied Research (SSTAR) Lab, directed by UW–Madison’s Nick Hillman, has launched a new series on its website titled, “Student Debt in Wisconsin.” “It is surprisingly difficult to find authoritative and timely data on this topic,” explains the main web page for the series, “yet doing so can help inform public discussions …
Carlton Jenkins, an alumnus of UW–Madison’s School of Education, was recently named the superintendent of the Madison Metropolitan School District, a position he will begin on Aug. 4. Jenkins earned both his master’s (1993) and PhD (2009) from the School of Education’s Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis. On July 15, The Capital Times …