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The University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Education is a school within the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Although teacher education was offered at the university’s founding in 1848, the School was officially started in 1930 and today is composed of nine academic departments. ''U.S. News & World Report'' in its (2015 Best Grad School rankings ) rated UW-Madison's School of Education No. 1 among all public institutions and tied for fifth overall. In all, seven UW-Madison education specialty programs were ranked by U.S. News to be among the top three nationally. Diana Hess succeeds Julie Underwood as the school's ninth dean in August 2015. == History == Before 1924, the UW School of Education was a small department within the College of Letters and Science. Public universities, including Madison, had been facing issues surrounding underclassmen attrition and education quality. While many parties asserted opinions, the leading voice for change was the University Board of Visitors, a university oversight board of prominent alumni that reported to the regents. The Board's composition during the twenties, led by Bart McCormick, lent towards alliance with professional educators. Their progressive priorities included increased educational efficiency through managerial reforms derived from scientific educational psychology research. The Board studied national and statewide teacher education for a year, which culminated in their 1924 annual report's recommendation for the education department's independence. They felt that the department suffered from a lack of autonomy, and that its split would raise the standing of education training to that of other professions with independence (engineering, law, agriculture, and medicine). Professional educators and university administrators had previously disagreed on whether the structural change was necessary, though the annual report claimed widespread support and cited the precedents in Illinois, Michigan, and Minnesota. UW President Edward Birge did not act on the report. In November 1927, new UW President Glenn Frank began plans for the School of Education. Its first director, psychology professor V. A. C. Henmon, had departed for Yale in June 1926〔 and had been against the School of Education's split. Henmon was replaced by acting director Willis L. Uhl, but Frank found Uhl's leadership inadequate for the impending changes and in April 1928 encouraged his departure. Uhl left for the University of Washington's education deanship in June 1928. Frank appointed an associate professor with whom he had been collaborating, Charles J. Anderson, to the directorship. In November 1928, a group from the Board of Visitors called for immediate progress towards a College of Education, and Anderson presented a plan to Frank and the Board of Regents on January 1, 1929. He presented a vision of Wisconsin teacher education where those trained at the existing nine teachers colleges return to the university after some experience to continue their education, and that the School of Education's independence would allow for the system's tighter integration. The five points of his argument were as follows: His presentation was successful, which left Frank with the task of convincing the practice-driven education professionals and the scholarship-driven College of Letters and Science that Anderson's proposal struck the proper balance of theory and practice. Anderson suggested joint-appointments for professors in related major academic fields, and Frank suggested using a single budget line and staying within the College of Letters and Science, but neither was suitable. Their efforts were temporarily halted when College of Letters and Science Dean George Sellery publicly criticized Frank's pet project, the Experimental College. By the end of 1929, the three worked together towards a solution, and Sellery suggested bypassing the faculty balance concern by instead including all faculty who taught courses within the education major program. The "coordinate" school proposal circulated on January 31, 1930 as Letters and Science Document 44, and was unanimously approved by the college faculty in February and by the university faculty in April. The regents approved the proposal later in April, and the School opened for the 1930 academic year with Anderson as dean. Historians E. David Cronon and John W. Jenkins wrote in their 1994 history of the university that the School gained esteem apace and remained close with the College of Letters and Science. They added that those relationships had endured to the time of print, and that the School's closeness with other faculty was idiosyncratic as compared to other American institutions of higher education. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Education」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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