UW-Madison alumnus Terrance L. Green is one of five early career researchers from across the nation to receive a 2020 William T. Grant Scholars award. Launched in 1982, this program supports the professional development of promising researchers in the social, behavioral, and health sciences who have received their terminal degrees within the past seven years. …
A team of early math education experts from across the country has pooled its expertise to develop a set of free, research-based learn-at-home materials geared toward children from birth to age 8. The “At-Home Early Math Learning Kit for Families,” created by the DREME Network’s Family Math team, is especially valuable as many people are …
UW-Madison’s Brett Nachman co-authored an article published in the College Student Affairs Journal alongside Ryan Miller, of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, and Richmond Wynn, of the University of North Florida. Nachman is a PhD student with the School of Education’s Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis. The article is titled, “ ‘I …
Highly regarded School of Education faculty members Li Chiao-Ping, Robert Enright, and Stacey Lee were appointed to prestigious WARF Named Professorships, UW-Madison announced on May 12. Overall, 32 members of the UW-Madison faculty have been awarded faculty fellowships for 2020-21. The awardees span the four divisions on campus: arts and humanities, physical sciences, social sciences, and biological …
UW-Madison’s Matthew Hora and colleagues published a new paper in the International Journal of Work-Integrated Learning titled, “Problematizing college internships: Exploring issues with access, program design, and developmental outcomes in three U.S. colleges.” Hora is the director of the Center for Research on College-Workforce Transitions, housed within the School of Education’s Wisconsin Center for Education Research …
By Jason Daley, College of Engineering Communications The best-laid plans of many parents are falling apart after two months of keeping their kids home during the COVID-19 pandemic — and for some families, Netflix binges and video games are replacing any attempts at home schooling. For four years, UW–Madison engineers and Field Day Lab game …
Every academic year, the School of Education’s Art Department hosts over 60 exhibitions, including that of its master of fine arts (MFA) students. With the COVID-19 pandemic forcing the closure of physical spaces on the UW-Madison campus, third-year MFA student exhibitions were moved online. Though students are challenged to create without many resources, the Art Department reports …
UW-Madison’s Thomas Popkewitz released his latest book, “The Impracticality of Practical Research: A History of Contemporary Sciences of Change that Conserve,” a work that examines the politics of practical knowledge and the paradox of exclusion in contemporary social and physical sciences. Popkewitz is a professor with the School of Education’s No. 1-ranked Department of Curriculum and …
By Janet L. Kelly, Wisconsin Center for Education Research communications Fans of the hip-hop television drama “Empire,” which abruptly ended its six-year run in April, and anyone interested in the music industry, can take a step closer to the realities of the music business by immersing themselves in a new and free online learning game, “Beats …
The School of Education’s Diego Román was selected as a 2020 Somos Profssional Development Award recipient, alongside Katya Garza, a junior CLS certificate student majoring in neurobiology and Spanish. Román is an assistant professor with the No. 1-ranked Department of Curriculum and Instruction. He received the award, given by UW–Madison’s Chican@ and Latin@ Studies Program, for a …