School of Education | University of Wisconsin–Madison
Picture it: The year is 2002. The Winter Olympics are being held in Salt Lake City, Utah. Tobey Maguire’s “Spider-Man” is the number one movie in the world. The reality television phenomenon “American Idol” premieres. The average cost of a gallon of gasoline is $1.61. In the education world, significant changes came to the United …
Mella Held Similar Job for UW–Madison Surgery Department Kelly Mella, who has more than 30 years of experience in communications as both a college professor and a practitioner, will join the WCER leadership team on Aug. 14, 2023 as WCER’s new Director of Communications and Marketing. An accomplished communications professional with proven leadership skills and …
Goplin, a Senior Accountant, Has Worked at WCER for More Than 45 Years WCER is very pleased to congratulate the Center’s Gwen Goplin on earning a prestigious University Staff Recognition Award. Just 10 were awarded across campus for 2023. Winners are recognized for achievements that include promoting the image of the university, demonstrating excellence, showing leadership, recommending …
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 …