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Tony AlleyneMid-Career Doctoral Program in Educational Leadership Ed.D., 2016 I knew what I wanted to accomplish and what I wanted with my nonprofit. I needed to increase my knowledge base and tool ki...
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Vivian Gadsden has been elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences with four colleagues across Penn. They are among 270 faculty nationwide recognized for significant contributions to acade...
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The American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting gets underway Thursday in Chicago. It is the world’s largest gathering of education researchers – a showcase for groundbreaking, inn...
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It’s the question math teachers know will come up at some point, “when am I going to use this in real life?” The best answer: “how about right now?” Standards reforms and curriculum trends emphasizing...
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Every educator has been there. A classroom discussion falls flat. Instead of watching students trade ideas across the room, the teacher ends up playing verbal ping-pong with individual students while ...
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Spend only a few minutes on social media and you will likely come across a dubious news story or a marketing campaign dressed up as journalism. You might have even fallen for some of these fake storie...
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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas often starts her classes by telling students, “books travel where we do not.” As an assistant professor of literacy at Penn GSE, Thomas believes that is especially true for chil...
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In the three days after the presidential election, the Southern Poverty Law Center documented more than 200 incidents of intimidation and harassment based on race, ethnicity, gender, religion, or sexu...
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For too long, many people talked about diverse schools as if they only existed in urban areas. But look at our nation’s changing demographics. Schools in the cities, suburbs, and rural communities are...
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Ashley KaneriaUrban Teaching Residency, 2016 “I am overjoyed to be working with Making Friends with Books: A Multi-generational Reading Program,” says Ashley Kaneria, GED ’16, coordinator of the prog...