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Celebrating its 20th anniversary, UW-Madison’s MSAN is a coalition of 28 sub-urban and urban school districts hailing from states across the country, including five districts serving Dane County. This group, housed within School of Education’s Wisconsin Center for Education Research (WCER), works to understand and eliminate racial disparities in student opportunity and achievement. During the MSAN Institute, educators participate …

Lurie will be recognized on June 17 in New York City during the Spirit of Anne Frank Awards ceremony and charity gala. Lurie is a social studies teacher at Waverly High School in Lansing, Michigan, where he introduces his students to a wide diversity of faiths and cultures, fostering opportunities for direct engagement with survivors and …

“I wanted to go back to school so I could do more to impact higher education and see people thrive,” Lee-Johnson says. Having participated in pre-college programs in high school, she was interested in working with students of color and underrepresented populations, and conducting research to improve college access and retention. Research with purpose Lee-Johnson researched …

Jackson is the Vilas Distinguished Professor of Higher Education and the chair of the School of Education’s Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis. He is also the director and chief research scientist of Wisconsin’s Equity and Inclusion Laboratory within the Wisconsin Center for Education Research. Frazier, the athletic director at Northern Illinois University, earned a master’s degree from …

Underwood is the Susan Engeleiter Professor of Education Law, Policy, and Practice, and the former dean of the School of Education. She discusses the likelihood that the governor’s education funding proposal will pass the budgeting process, and whether the funds will meet the needs of teachers in the state. Underwood tells Freyberg that although some …

The nearly year-long study, conducted by experts on multilingual learners at UW–Madison, is based on population data from 15 states that track students who remain classified as English learners for five or more years. They found the population of LTEL students varies from 2 to 24 percent across the states studied. “Currently, one in five …

But she serves another role, as a community-based educator. An assistant professor in the School of Education, Baldridge teaches in the Department of Educational Policy Studies. She was selected as a recipient of a 2019 Distinguished Teaching Award and is the inaugural recipient of the Excellence in Community-based Learning award. While the award recognizes the recipients as the …

Co-authors included UW-Madison’s Bailey Smolarek, Kelly Norris Martin of the Rochester Institute of Technology, and UW-Madison’s Luke Scrivener. The study is titled, “Exploring the Situated and Cultural Aspects of Communication in the Professions: Implications for Teaching, Student Employability, and Equity in Higher Education.” This report explains how skills, like communication, are defined and used is …

Apple is the John Bascom Professor Emeritus of Curriculum and Instruction, and Educational Policy Studies. Apple also recently delivered the opening keynote address at the Conference on Democratic Education in Ankara, Turkey. His presentation was titled, “Building and Defending Democratic Schools.” In addition, his book, “Teachers and Texts: A Political Economy of Class and Gender Relations in …

Wolfgram is an anthropologist of education and a senior researcher at the CCWT, housed within the School of Education’s Wisconsin Center for Education Research. Vang also works with the CCWT, as an undergraduate research assistant. This WisContext article explores the difficulty refugees face when it comes to education. While many refugees who come to the U.S. …