Constance Clayton Professor of Urban Education Howard Stevenson and his brother Bryan, a civil rights attorney and author of the best-selling book Just Mercy, reflect on their Delaware childhood, their social justice work and how to make sense of these troubled times on WHYY's The Connection.
The second year of the Catalyst Innovation Summit brought together over 170 founders, investors, researchers, and educators for discussions of the edtech market, the importance of research-backed solutions, applicable lessons, and more.
Penn GSE welcomed scores of alumni back to campus to celebrate, reconnect, and learn from a timely faculty panel about how educators can facilitate open and constructive classroom conversations during polarized times.
Amy Stornaiuolo notes the importance of fan fiction and other engagement in communities around popular media as an important way that young people build literacies and provides ways teachers can leverage the energy students bring to fan texts.
Artificial intelligence tools can generate lesson plans in an instant—but that doesn’t ensure high-quality, enriching, and contextually relevant instruction. Bodong Chen provides advice on how to create engaging, effective, and contemporary lesson plans using AI.
Penn GSE, at the School District of Philadelphia's request, is offering eighth- and ninth-grade Algebra 1 teachers a fellowship designed to teach them different ways to explain algebraic functions.
With funding from the Neubauer Family Foundation, the program was created in direct response to the School District of Philadelphia’s call for targeted support in Algebra 1 instruction.
Penn GSE will work with the School District of Philadelphia and Neubauer Family Foundation to support math instruction for students. Dean Katharine Strunk says, “We are honored to support teachers with the tools, training, and strategies that will help their students thrive in this critical subject.”
On May 17, in the Palestra, Penn GSE commemorated the achievements of the roughly 700 master’s and doctoral graduates at this year’s Commencement ceremony.
Julie Wollman notes that, "The pressures on a president are entirely different from a provost’s, given the public attention, the much heavier stress, and responsibilities," and speculates that Rutgers will choose someone who has already proven they can do the job for their next president.
In a story syndicated to Chalkbeat and multiple other outlets, the Hechinger Report cites a 2023 study by Richard Ingersoll finding that most severe teacher shortages are in rural areas, largely because of high turnover.
Kandi Wiens says that burnout, especially in the workplace, “ultimately comes down to a misalignment, or sometimes referred to as a mismatch, between someone’s personality or temperament and the environment that they are in," and provides tips for addressing this problem.
Damani White-Lewis believes it is wrong to assume that a decline in white male professors is necessarily due to discrimination. He points out that the pool of candidates for academic positions–doctoral candidates and postdocs–has also become more diverse.
The newly named office in Catalyst @ Penn GSE merges the expertise and expands the impact of two offices: the Penn Literacy Network and the Center for Professional Learning.
This award will support the assistant professor in Penn GSE’s Policy, Organizations, and Leadership division in a five-year research plan on institutional responses to truancy.
In The Key podcast, Karen Weaver discusses how recent NCAA policy changes, including NIL earnings, the transfer portal, and the House settlement, are reshaping college athletics and will have broad impacts across higher education.
Michael Gottfried found in new research that student absenteeism significantly lowers teacher job satisfaction, emphasizing that attendance policies should address the full classroom ecosystem to support both student learning and teacher wellbeing.
Ross Aikins supports integrating AI into education, emphasizing that universities must evolve to prepare students for a future shaped by generative AI.
Rameen Iftikhar, who completed a master’s degree in international education development in January, will pursue a Ph.D. in education at University of Cambridge.
In a San Francisco public radio story, Quinn discusses how desegregation-era policies triggered lasting enrollment shifts and funding challenges in San Francisco’s public schools.
Robert Zemsky leads the College-in-3 Exchange initiative, which supports accelerated degree programs like BYU-Pathway’s as a means to “increase student success while decreasing student costs.”
Dr. Milana Hogan shares her groundbreaking research findings, which reveal that non-cognitive traits such as grit and a growth mindset are strong predictors of success for women in the legal profession, as well as her personal journey, the challenges she faced, and how the Penn CLO program has been transformative in her career and personal life.
The latest issue of Social Innovations Journal is an outgrowth of the center for global education innovation’s expertise and mission, capitalizing on their deep network of researchers, practitioners, entrepreneurs, and policy leaders.
Kandi Wiens says that resilient, successful people manage workplace stress by challenging negative assumptions, interrupting catastrophic thinking, and focusing on what is actually true in stressful situations rather than creating self-critical narratives.
Karen Weaver, a contributor to Forbes, reported that Judge Claudia Wilken delayed final approval of the NCAA’s $2.8 billion athlete pay settlement, highlighting concerns over new roster cap rules
Two teams of education master’s students were finalists in the co-curricular program at the business school, which brought together students from across the University with varying levels of experience in artificial intelligence to solve real-world problems in just one week.
A profile on Furness High School highlights the launch of “The Academy of Penn,” a program designed to support first-generation college students and those from under-resourced communities through academic assistance, career exposure, and social-emotional resources.
Penn GSE students explored policy, shared research, and burnished their professional development at the recent Comparative and International Education Society conference in Chicago.
The Rosa Lee and Egbert Chang Professor at the University of Pennsylvania and 2013 MacArthur Fellow will address the graduates on May 17 in the Palestra.
Jonathan Zimmerman expresses concern that the Trump administration's politicization of federal research funding threatens academic freedom, noting that recent self-censorship on campuses mirrors practices in authoritarian regimes.
Penn GSE alumni from across the academic spectrum have advised politicians, worked in the White House and the statehouse, and spurred change in our nation’s schools and universities thanks to their evidence-backed expertise in education policy.
This spring, those honors include three Spencer Foundation grants, the Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching, and more.
