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Awards and Honors

Professor Julie Mead receives Vilas Young Investigator Award
Professor Brunner latest UW professor to receive Culbertson Award at UCEA Convention for examining research into power, decision-making and educational leadership

Other News

Professor Odden and the Consortium for Policy Research in Education (CPRE) advising Minnesota superintendents group on teacher pay.

Allan Odden is quoted in the Detroit Free Press calling performance pay for teachers "an idea whose time has come," in an article (published 9/03/99) about the Detroit Public School district and how it is currently seeking a performance pay plan. Related articles quoting Professor Odden, available in PDF files, include merit pay discussions in Denver public schools and performance pay in Maryland schools.

The Oregonian Metro quotes Allan Odden in an article regarding teacher salary caps (available as a PDF file).

In this Education Week article Allan Odden comments on the potential application of knowledge and skill pay principles to teachers.

Ed.Admin. Newsletter - Spring '99

Allan Odden discusses evaluating school funding levels using the costs associated with popular school design models as a benchmark in this Education Week article . See also this related side bar.

Allan Odden comments on the pay-for-performance pilot program agreed to by the Denver teachers in this Education Week article.

Titled "Contract Pays Teachers to Keep Learning," this Milwaukee Journal Sentinel article of September 4th cites work by CPRE researchers Allan Odden and Carolyn Kelley.

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"Lessons in Performance" appeared in the June 7th edition of the Denver Rocky Mountain News. Quote by Allan Odden.

Allan Odden discusses fiscal equity and educational adequacy in relation to South Carolina in this article from the May 5th edition of Education Week.

Dept. alumnus Dr. Gordon Hewitt's dissertation findings on graduate student collective bargaining make the news. See the story in Wisconsin Week, at http://www.news.wisc.edu/wisweek/view.msql?id=2514

B. Dean Bowles and Paul V. Bredeson, Professors of Ed. Admin., will be presenting papers in Manchester, England at the British Educational Management & Administration Society (BEMAS@shu.ac.uk) Sept. 17-19, 1999.

Professor Paul V. Bredeson will present a paper Sept. 23 in Lahti, Finland at the European Conference on Educational Research. Go to the European Educational Research Association home page for further information on the conference.

The Association for the Advancement of International Education is pleased to announce the availability of the AAIE - Ernest Mannino Scholarship in the amount of $2,500.

Professor Kent Peterson was director of the Principals' Leadership Institute in Ypsilanti, Mich. July 24-26, 1999 for the Comprehensive Center, Region VI, Wisconsin Center for Educational Research. The institute provided professional development opportunities in school leadership and improvement efforts.

JOB POSTING: Faculty Associate position available (application deadline: June 18, 1999)

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Kent Peterson gave the keynote May 8, 1999 for the UW School of Education Alumni Office Sesquicentennial gathering.

Reception for Distinguished Alumni will honor Jennifer Grant Haworth and Richard Chait - Friday, May 7, 1999. (More information about the accomplishments of Richard Chait and Jennifer Haworth.)

Wisconsin Leadership Conference, a conference celebrating the contributions and careers of Professor B. Dean Bowles, Professor Lloyd E. Frohreich, and Professor George C. Kliminski, planned for Friday and Saturday, Nov.12-13, 1999 at the Pyle Center, Madison, Wisconsin

Department's Leadership Seminar (Ed. Admin. 502, Fall 1999) introduces undergraduate and other students who hold leadership positions across campus (student government leaders, academic and student organization officers, Greek and residence hall association officers, house fellows, etc.) to concepts and skills related to leadership.

Professor Brunner's new book advises women considering the superintendency

Professor Paul Bredeson selected as a Fellow in the UW-Madison Teaching Academy

Professor Alan Knox selected to receive 1999 Faculty Distinguished Achievement Award

Principals need to become anthropologists to understand and shape their schools' cultures, according to new book by Professor Peterson

Professor Odden among those cited in St. Paul Pioneer Press article questioning Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura's proposed budget for education

Author of The Shape of the River: Long-term Consequences of Considering Race in College and University Admissions, William Bowen, to deliver public lecture April 7 at Memorial Union Theater

Ed. Admin. student Rebecca Menghini a leader in national discussion on graduate student organization

Haworth and Chait to receive School of Education alumni awards May 8 during the School's Alumni Weekend. (More information about the accomplishments of Richard Chait and Jennifer Haworth.)

Professor Kent Peterson presents Education Forum at 78th State Education Convention Jan. 20 in Milwaukee

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