School of Education awards 18 projects through One School Innovation Fund
The UW–Madison School of Education is proud to announce the selection of 18 projects for funding through the One School Innovation Fund, a competitive internal program designed to catalyze bold, collaborative research and scholarship across the arts, education, and health.
Announcing the 2026 SEF Research Fellows: Advancing Education Opportunity Across the South
The Southern Education Foundation is proud to announce the selection of seven 2026 SEF Research Fellows, a distinguished cohort of scholars and practitioners committed to advancing education justice across the South.
UW–Madison’s Williams named Southern Education Foundation Research Fellow
UW–Madison’s Rachel Elizabeth Williams, an assistant professor in the School of Education’s Department of Educational Policy Studies, has been selected as a 2026 Southern Education Foundation (SEF) Research Fellow.
Re-Educated Podcast features Williams: Who Gets to Decide What a Public School Should Be?
Dr. Rachel Elizabeth Williams begins with a deceptively simple question: if charter schools are given extraordinary freedom to design new educational models, why do so many of them end up looking the same? Rather than asking whether charter schools raise test scores, Williams asks a deeper question: why has this become the educational future that society has chosen to imagine for Black children?
Cookies with the Soulfolk Collective Talk: Education, the Metropolis, and Black Geographies of the U.S. South
Meet research fellows of The SoulFolk Collective, inquire after our research, and share a treat with our community during Cookies with the Collective. Come learn about Black geographies with The SoulFolk Collective and Dr. Rachel Elizabeth Williams, an Assistant Professor in the Educational Policy Studies Department at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
UW–Madison’s Williams earns grant to continue award-winning study of charter school growth in Memphis
UW–Madison’s Williams earns grant to continue award-winning study of charter school growth in Memphis
UW–Madison’s Williams wins Outstanding Dissertation Award from AERA’s Division L
UW–Madison’s Rachel Williams is receiving the Outstanding Dissertation Award from the American Educational Research Association’s (AERA) Division L, Educational Policy and Politics.
Meet the 2024 Scholar Strategy Network’s Education Scholars Training Program Cohort Members
We're excited to announce the 2024 cohort of the Education Scholars Training Program!
School welcomes nine new faculty members to campus
The UW–Madison School of Education welcomed another talented and diverse cohort of new faculty members to campus for the start of the 2023 fall semester.
Featured on 8’Clock Buzz with Dr. Damita Brown on WORT 89.9, “The Resilience of Segregation Itself”
Today on the Tuesday 8:00 Buzz with Dr. Damita Brown…
Rachel Williams is a PhD Candidate at University of California Berkeley, writing her dissertation bringing new analysis to modern segregation.