Communities have an interest in ensuring children receive an adequate education. But how do we define community? In this column, Underwood explores the meaning of community when it comes to ensuring education. Underwood is the Susan Engeleiter Professor of Education Law, Policy and Practice, and the former dean of the School of Education. Writes Underwood: …
The RERIC launch and celebration runs from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. on the 13th floor of the Educational Sciences building. In addition to Albers and Garbacz, School of Education Dean Diana Hess and WCER Director Robert Mathieu will help host the event. The mission of the RERIC is to conduct rigorous, sophisticated, interdisciplinary, and partnership-based research …
Teixeira is an assistant professor with the School of Education’s Art Department. His research-based and interdisciplinary work involves video, installation, text and photography. Through performative and participatory structures, he examines notions of language, locational identity, exile and displacement, addressing the limits and overlapping of personal and socio-political territories, physical and psychological spaces. A short description of …
Ko is a Ph.D. student with the School of Education’s Department of Rehabilitation Psychology and Special Education, and Hong is a Ph.D. student with the School of Education’s Department of Educational Policy Studies. The KAERA is an organization of Korean-American and Korean educational researchers dedicated to the advancement of knowledge, scholarship, and practice in education. They are …
The Kellett Mid-Career Awards support faculty who are seven to 20 years past the first promotion to a tenured position. The award was created to provide needed support and encouragement to faculty at a critical stage of their careers, and comes with $75,000 that may be spent over five years. Bolt is a professor with the Department …
Ellsworth, who is now an education professor at Montana State University, earned her Ph.D. from the School of Education’s Department of Curriculum and Instruction in 1989. Prior to working with the MSU College of Education, Ellsworth taught curriculum in Spanish and English in Wisconsin. According to the Bozeman Daily Chronicle, this is where she learned the importance …
“What do you want to be when you grow up?” wasn’t a question kids in her Philadelphia neighborhood were asked. The goals for children were pretty simple: Graduate from high school and stay out of trouble. Maybe, just maybe, go to community college. “Black working-class residents of West Philadelphia did not have the luxury of …
This award is given to a single individual every year, selected by a student vote. McDowell earned his master’s degree from the School of Education’s Department of Counseling Psychology in 1992. McDowell is a full-time faculty member at Madison College, where he instructs in psychology. He also serves as a mental strength program instructor for Madison College’s …
Luedke is an alumna of UW-Madison who earned her Ph.D. from the School of Education’s Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis in 2014. Luedke is an assistant professor and the interim coordinator of the higher education leadership program at UW–Whitewater. Her research examines how students of color, and Latinx students in particular, are socialized …
An opening reception will be held on Friday, May 3, from 5 to 8 p.m. at the Tandem Press Apex Gallery. The exhibit will then be on view through Sept. 28. The Tandem Press, which was founded in 1987, is affiliated with the School of Education’s Art Department. The Tandem Press brings in artists who use …