This year, seven projects and 10 seed grants were awarded funding through the Reilly-Baldwin Wisconsin Idea Endowment. Of these, one grant and three seed projects are led by faculty and graduate students in the UW–Madison School of Education. The awards support staff and students in collaboration with community members “to co-create and share knowledge and …
UW–Madison’s David Kaplan, the Patricia Busk Professor of Quantitative Methods in the Department of Educational Psychology, was in Paris in September to give an invited presentation to staff of the Directorate of Education and Skills of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). The focus of the presentation was on Kaplan’s work (funded by …
Three faculty with the UW–Madison School of Education will be participating in the upcoming “Preserving Public Education” event hosted by the League of Women Voters of Dane County. Kevin Henry and Julie Mead will serve on a panel examining how education funding works and the effect of public education on our community, with Julie Underwood …
By Laurel White A new partnership between the UW–Madison School of Education and Milwaukee Public Schools aims to combat a shortage of special education teachers in one of the state’s most high-needs school districts by training and placing 36 master’s-level special education teachers in Milwaukee schools over the next five years. The program is the …
A campus photographer followed along as new UW–Madison student Jayquan Jaeger, who hopes to double major in astronomy and theatre, navigated his first day of class earlier this month. Jaeger’s first day reflected his “wide-ranging interests,” notes the story, “with some piano practice along with a theatre class. He lives in Dejope Residence Hall.” See …
By WIDA WIDA, an educational services organization housed in UW–Madison’s Wisconsin Center for Education Research (WCER), is excited to announce the appointment of Meg Van Voorhis as its inaugural chief educator learning officer (CELO). With her extensive experience and her commitment to our mission, Van Voorhis will play a pivotal role in furthering WIDA’s vision …
UW–Madison’s Mollie McQuillan was recently selected for the William T. Grant Foundation’s competitive Early Career Reviewer Program, which recruits early-career researchers to serve as peer reviewers of grant proposals submitted to the foundation for studies on improving the use of research evidence. McQuillan is an assistant professor with the School of Education’s Department of Educational …
This fall, the Cooperative Children’s Book Center (CCBC) will be hosting two in-person book discussions open to the public. The first discussion will be held Wednesday, Oct. 11, from 4-5:30 p.m. and will focus on new picture books for children and young adults. The second discussion will focus on middle-grade and young adult fiction, and …
By WCER Communications Education experts at UW–Madison are working to ensure that Jewish children of color will be able to see themselves in the school materials they use to help them learn. The Shalom Curriculum Project (SCP) is a skilled coalition of researchers, educators, and community members coming together to address a need in Jewish …
UW–Madison’s Jerry Jordan, an academic and multicultural advisor with the School of Education, is the illustrator of a new book titled, “Ida B. Wells Marches for the Vote.” The book is written by Dinah Johnson. According to the publisher, the book is “a stunning picture book biography about the early life of Ida B. Wells, …