New UW–Madison study shows people who fail to quit smoking should immediately try again January 29, 2024 By Laurel White People who immediately try again to quit smoking after a failed attempt are more successful than people who take time before another try, according to a new UW–Madison study. The multi-year study, published this week in Addiction, …
Thirteen faculty members have been chosen to receive this year’s Distinguished Teaching Awards, an honor given out since 1953 to recognize some of the university’s finest educators. Among this year’s honorees, two are faculty members in the School of Education: Emily Machado, an assistant professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, is receiving the …
By Laurel White Two faculty members from the UW–Madison School of Education will help lead the new Wisconsin Sloan Center for Systemic Change, or WiSC², an initiative aimed at removing barriers and improving equity in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) doctoral programs across the country. The project launched earlier this month as part of a $2.5 …
By Laurel White The ways elementary and high school administrators disrupt or enable bullying of transgender and gender-expansive students in their schools show up in very distinct ways, according to a new UW–Madison study. The study, published in the most recent issue of the nation’s top educational leadership journal, Educational Administration Quarterly, shows four distinct ways …
By Laurel White Kevin Lawrence Henry Jr., an assistant professor in the UW–Madison School of Education’s Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis, recently received a national honor for early career scholars from the University Council for Educational Administration (UCEA). Henry received the Jack A. Culbertson Award at the UCEA’s annual conference in Minneapolis in November. The UCEA …
UW–Madison’s Douglas Rosenberg, a professor in the School of Education’s Art Department, wrote the forward for the forthcoming book, “Dance, Technology, and Social Justice: Individual and Collective Emancipation Through Embodied Techniques,” by Kaustavi Sarkar. The book is scheduled to be published on April 24 by McFarland, a leading independent publisher of academic and general-interest nonfiction books. …
UW–Madison graduate student Sky Duke, a PhD student in the School of Education’s Department of Educational Policy Studies, has been selected to participate in the 2024 NCES Data Institute. The institute, focused on “Using Federal Datasets to Support Research on Postsecondary Education,” provides an intensive introduction to National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) datasets and research …
John Baldacchino, an art education professor in the School of Education’s Art Department, is the author of a new paper that explores his experience writing about philosophy in Maltese. “I am pleased by this paper,” Baldacchino says, “as for me it’s a first where I invite my English-speaking readers to engage with my native Maltese …
By Karen Rivedal, WCER Communications Driven by the goal of improving the country’s ability to solve complex problems, a partnership led by UW–Madison’s Wei LAB will help engineering societies apply a newly released international standard on diversity and inclusion. It aims to foster STEM disciplinary excellence by supporting fuller engagement of women and minoritized people in …
By Laurel White Federal and state budgets that use “equity-based” funding principles for higher education could be the key to addressing achievement gaps for low-income and minority students, according to a new report from UW–Madison researchers. The report released today by the Student Success Through Applied Research (SSTAR) Labbrings together decades of research about higher education funding and …