To say the COVID-19 pandemic has presented challenges to the UW-Madison campus community — and the world — would be an understatement. Most everything is different than it was just over a month ago. People are grappling with issues that test their physical and mental health, determination, and creativity. But when life gives you lemons …
The School of Education’s Erica Halverson and Kate Vieira are two of 13 faculty members from across campus to be recognized with a 2020 UW-Madison Distinguished Teaching Award, which are designed to recognize the university’s finest educators. Halverson, who was honored with a Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award, is a professor with the School of Education’s …
Maryam Ladoni, a photo-based artist who grew up in Iran and came to UW–Madison to pursue a master of fine arts, was looking forward to opening her MFA exhibition to the public March 23-26. But on March 11, due to growing public health concerns over COVID-19, the university announced that when spring break was over, …
By Doug Erickson, University Communications Michael G. Moore often likes to shock audiences by telling them that distance education can be not only more economical than classroom instruction but, importantly, just as good of a learning experience. “I believe it passionately,” Moore says. “Whether one agrees or not, it is where I have stood for …
By Janet L. Kelly, Wisconsin Center for Education Research communications WIDA Early Years is releasing a new booklet — “Learning Language Every Day: Activities for Families” — that’s available free online in English and Español to help children keep learning at home during the COVID-19 pandemic. The booklet can be downloaded for printing and sharing. Appropriate for children between the ages of …
UW-Madison’s Jared Colston, a Ph.D. student with the School of Education’s Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis, is the lead author on a report for New America titled “Anticipating and managing precipitous college closures.” The paper concerns the closure of over 300 higher education institutions in the U.S., of which a majority are for-profit colleges …
By Karen Rivedal, Wisconsin Center for Education Research communications Even as the continuing COVID-19 pandemic looks poised to cancel traditional college internships over the next three to four months, a new resource guide for colleges, students, and employers developed by UW−Madison education researcher Matthew T. Hora points the way to a host of web-based alternatives for these important on-the-job …
By Lynn Armitage, Wisconsin Center for Education Research communications In 2012, Edward Hubbard, a cognitive neuroscientist and assistant professor with UW‒Madison’s Department of Educational Psychology, created the Educational Neuroscience Lab to understand — through functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) — how the physical changes that occur in children’s brains as they learn may help improve education practices. “We use …
Brett Ranon Nachman was about to take the stage at the Scottsdale Community College 2012 commencement. He thought he’d be more nervous speaking in front of all of those people. Nope. He knew exactly what he was going to say, practicing it over and over until his notecards weren’t necessary. After waiting through the usual …
UW-Madison alumna Frances Wills was chosen by the New York state legislature to represent the 9th Judicial District on the state Board of Regents. Wills earned her Ph.D. from the School of Education’s Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis in 1990. Retiring in 2019, Wills served in education for more than 50 years. For 16 of those …