By Laurel White A School of Education faculty member has earned a Fulbright award to support an Egyptian university as it develops its graduate-level program in adapted physical education. Luis Columna, a professor in the Department of Kinesiology, will spend six weeks at Helwan University in Helwan, Egypt. During this visit, he will support the …
By WCER Communications UW–Madison’s Nicole Bowman has been honored as the inaugural recipient of the 2025 Ricardo Millett Award for Racial Equity in Evaluation. The award, sponsored by the American Evaluation Association (AEA), recognizes individuals who have advanced racial equity through outstanding contributions to evaluation practice, scholarship, and leadership. Bowman, an active member of the …
Patrick Schroeder — who will graduate this weekend with a bachelor’s degree from the School of Education’s Department of Curriculum and Instruction and serve as the School’s flag bearer for winter commencement — was recently recognized as one of UW–Madison’s winter 2025 “notable grads” by the Office of Strategic Communication. Following is a profile of Schroeder written …
By Todd Finkelmeyer What does curiosity sound and look like in a sixth-grade classroom? In rural western Wisconsin, students buzz with energy and engage in deep conversation as science teacher Ally LaFave slowly makes her way around the room. Students are broken into small groups of three or four and are sitting at tables with …
UW–Madison’s Thomas Popkewitz recently signed a contract on a new book series with Routledge that explores the possibilities, paradoxes, and boundaries of the sciences that shape education. The series is titled, “Routledge Studies in Histories and Cultural Sociology of the Education Sciences.” Popkewitz, an internationally recognized scholar with the School of Education’s No. 1-ranked Department …
UW–Madison students living in University Housing each semester have the opportunity to recognize instructors who have made a positive impact on their learning through the Honored Instructor program. The program allows students to nominate educators who challenge them, support their academic growth, make learning enjoyable, or inspire them in meaningful ways. The fall 2025 list …
By Karen Rivedal, Office of Research & Scholarship For the first time since full-day, four-year-old kindergarten (4K) began in the Madison Metropolitan School District, a new evaluation by researchers from UW–Madison and the district shows “strong evidence” suggesting students in the full-day 4K program learn more over the school year than their peers attending half-day …
By Karen Rivedal, Office of Research & Scholarship UW–Madison scientist Ross Benbow will use a three-year, nearly $700,000 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to better understand how the social networks of students from rural Wisconsin influence their success in college. “I’m interested in the transitions students make between different kinds of social and …
By Laurel White A new research project co-led by a School of Education faculty member and a Wisconsin Center for Education Research (WCER) affiliate aims to identify promising ways to support ethical and collaborative research teams in higher education. The three-year project, funded by the National Science Foundation, will examine the impact of an evidence-based …
UW–Madison’s Michael Apple, the John Bascom Professor Emeritus of Curriculum and Instruction, is editor of a new book titled, “Education and the Politics of Interruption: Does the Right Always Win?” The book, which Apple co-edited with Iana Gomes De Lima and Luis Armando Gandin, will be published this month by Routledge. The book explores how …