Barry is an award-winning author and cartoonist with the Art Department. The associate professor of interdisciplinary creativity holds the Chazen Family Distinguished Chair in Art. With comics more popular than ever and with large amounts of student interest, Barry’s talents are put to good use in the School of Education. In the spring of 2012, Barry …
UW-Madison’s David Kaplan will be receiving the 2018 Samuel J. Messick Distinguished Scientific Contributions Award from Division 5 of the American Psychological Association. This recognition honors an individual who has a long and distinguished history of scientific contributions within the field of quantitative research methods. Division 5 draws together specialists in the areas of quantitative and qualitative methods and includes …
UW-Madison’s Julie Underwood authored another “Under the Law” column for Phi Delta Kappan magazine, with her latest report examining education as an American right. Underwood is the Susan Engeleiter Professor of Education Law, Policy, and Practice at UW-Madison, and the former dean of the School of Education. In “Education as an American right?,” Underwood unpacks …
A recent publication from UW-Madison’s Matthew Hora is being honored by the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) with its 2018 Frederic W. Ness Book Award, which is given to the work that best contributes to the understanding and improvement of liberal education. Hora is being recognized for “Beyond the Skills Gap: Preparing College …
UW-Madison’s Katherine Cramer received the Giovanni Sartori award for best book published in 2016 about or using qualitative research. The award is from the Qualitative and Multi Methods Research section of the American Political Science Association. Cramer wrote “The Politics of Resentment: Rural Consciousness in Wisconsin and the Rise of Scott Walker” in 2016. The publication examines rural resentment …
UW-Madison alumna Kristin Grant recently received a 2014 Kennedy Center/Stephen Sondheim Inspirational Teacher Award. These honors are designed to “publicly recognize specific teachers by spotlighting their extraordinary impact on the lives of students. The Awards celebrate the teaching profession, the important role of teachers in society, and seek to inspire others to pursue this noble profession. …
As part of its Children in Media series, National Public Radio used the expertise of the UW-Madison School of Education’s Cooperative Children’s Book Center (CCBC) to examine why — even as the face of the nation changes –- only a small fraction of children’s books have main characters that are Latino, Native American, black or Asian.