The report begins: “Researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison are looking to school districts such as Baraboo for insight into what it’s like to teach in rural areas and how to better connect university graduates to those schools.” The article explains how the Wisconsin Center for Education Research (WCER) started a “Teacher Speakout!” program in …
Registration for all UW–Madison students opens Jan. 25 and there are more than 75 volunteering opportunities to choose from. Badger Volunteers is a semester-long program that pairs teams of students with community organizations (schools, nonprofits, municipalities) to volunteer one to four hours each week at the same organization. The program is designed to foster meaningful and …
Ladson-Billings is a professor emerita with the School of Education’s Department of Department of Curriculum and Instruction. Ladson-Billings, who also was a faculty affiliate with the departments of Educational Policy Studies, Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis, and Afro American Studies, is the current president of the National Academy of Education. Her research examines the pedagogical …
“The obstacles are numerous and challenging, but when refugees receive support, they are able to resettle and access higher education,” says Matthew Wolfgram, a senior researcher at the Wisconsin Center for Education Research (WCER) in the School of Education. “After all the struggles that refugees go through to get here, we need to set up a system to support their higher …
Among the experts utilized to put this topic in perspective is UW–Madison’s Walter Stern, an assistant professor with the School of Education’s Department of Educational Policy Studies. Stern, a historian of education, is the author of a 2018 book titled, “Race & Education in New Orleans: Creating the Segregated City, 1764-1960.” He explains to WhoWhatWhy.org how cities, …
If you are an innovator or entrepreneur working to bring compelling solutions to the marketplace, Discovery to Product (D2P) wants to hear from you. This initiative is currently accepting applications for two spring semester courses to help campus innovators commercialize their groundbreaking ideas, Innovation to Market (I2M) and Igniter. All D2P programs are free and open to …
“There were very few practitioners and the field was growing very slowly,” Caroline Thompson, the university’s occupational therapy program director from 1945 to 1976, said in a 1996 interview. “Very few people knew of OT. There were only five or six training programs in the United States.” Most recently, in 2016, UW–Madison continued the tradition …
The award is given by the Cooperative Children’s Book Center (CCBC), a library housed within UW–Madison’s School of Education. “Little Brown” was edited by Allyn Johnston and published in the United States in 2018 by Beach Lane Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing. Do the other dogs not play with Little Brown because …
It was a major success for the Center for the Integration of Research, Teacher and Learning (CIRTL) to co-lead one of the winning awards. CIRTL is housed within the Wisconsin Center for Education Research, which is part of UW–Madison’s School of Education. But the CIRTL award was only half of the good news. Another WCER project …
The prize, from the Dance Studies Association, is awarded to the best book in dance published during the previous three calendar years. “I was lucky to receive a Kellett Mid-Career Award about five or six years ago that allowed me to focus on this book project for two years,” says Rosenberg, a professor who chairs …