School of Education | University of Wisconsin–Madison
WCER researcher Ross Benbow and his growing NSF project involving support networks for student military were part of a recent roundtable discussion on campus with U.S. Secretary of Veterans Affairs Denis McDonough. The June 6, 2023 discussion featured 11 student veterans and staff members, with a focus on how best to support UW–Madison’s more than 2,000 student military members and …
Three WCER Researchers Among 34 Awardees Thirty-four UW–Madison faculty have been awarded fellowships from the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education for 2023-24, including three researchers from the Wisconsin Center for Education Research in the School of Education. The awardees span the four divisions on campus: arts and humanities, physical sciences, social sciences …
WCER researcher Shinye Kim, an assistant professor of counseling psychology in the School of Education, is using a $249,973 campus grant to create a “pain expression library” and digital assessment tool to help fill a void of clinical knowledge about how Asian Americans describe and rate their experiences of chronic pain. The two-year project is designed …
On May 1, 2023, in honor of School Principals Day and the 20th anniversary of the Institute of Education Sciences (IES), producers of the blog Inside IES Research asked UW−Madison education professors Rich Halverson and Carolyn Kelley to write a guest post describing their WCER project: Comprehensive Assessment of Leadership for Learning (CALL), along with Mark Blitz, project director for CALL from the …
Two new reports from the Madison Education Partnership look at differences in the experience of students enrolled in full-day and half-day four-year-old kindergarten (4K) in the Madison Metropolitan School District during the 2021-2022 school year. Researchers assessed 406 students, observed 16 classrooms, and interviewed 13 teachers across full- and half-day classrooms. The team estimated differences in student …
Smith, 85, Died May 1 of Cancer in Palo Alto, California Marshall S. (Mike) Smith, a giant in American education and social policy for over six decades who led the Wisconsin Center for Education (WCER) from 1980 to 1986, died May 1 at his home in Palo Alto, California. He was 85. Smith served in …
Andrew Ruis, a WCER research scientist and expert on the history of school lunches—he wrote the book Eating to Learn, Learning to Eat: The Origins of School Lunch in the United States—has done many interviews and media consults this year, as the topic has often been in the news. Most recently, he was featured in “Making All School …
WCER is pleased to congratulate Christine Pfund for earning the esteemed title of Distinguished Senior Scientist. Per university policy, an academic staff member awarded the Distinguished prefix is one who typically performs at a level requiring extensive experience and advanced knowledge and skills. Peers recognize the expertise of a Distinguished member, and their reputation extends beyond their …
Two-Day Conference Starting April 20 was First In-Person MSAN Institute Since 2019 WCER’s MSAN Network hosted 175 teachers, principals, and school district leaders from across the country last week for the 2023 MSAN Institute, a two-day professional learning conference aimed at building racially just schools, with a focus this year on addressing the educator shortage crisis while recruiting …
Book Argues Teachers’ Active Participation in Policy Advocacy is Key to Creating Optimal K-12 Ed Systems WCER evaluator/researcher Annalee Good and Framingham State University Associate Professor May Hara will host an in-person discussion of their book, Teachers as Policy Advocates: Strategies for Collaboration and Change, with representatives from teacher advocacy group Educators for Excellence during next week’s AERA conference in Chicago. …