The GSE EdCast

A periodic production of the Graduate School of Education

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POVERTY, CHARTERS, AND ACHIEVEMENT GAPS: A conversation with Pedro Noguera on school reform in the United States and the entagled issues of poverty that make school improvement so difficult.
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DOES MULTILINGUAL EDUCATION MATTER?: The world is becoming more English–monolingual and more multilingual at the same time. How should educators make sense of it? Penn GSE's Nancy Hornberger has some ideas.
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YOUNG BLACK MALES: ANGER, AGGRESSION AND PERCEPTION: Lots of people in world today see black boys as inherently aggressive. To Penn GSE Professor Howard Stevenson, this is a huge problem, so he's finding ways to change kids' behaviors and public perceptions.
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LINKING POLICY TO EDUCATIONAL IMPROVEMENT: What does education policy have to do with improving teaching and learning? Penn GSE's Elliot Weinbaum discusses the relationship between policy and educational improvement.
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STORYTIME! Penn GSE Professor Lawrence Sipe talks about how little kids engage with literature and what it means to our society.
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LARGE DISTRICTS: TOO MUCH TO MANAGE?: What does it take to make a large, urban school district work? Penn GSE's Torch Lytle, a veteran of Philadelphia and Trenton School Districts, says public support - and patience - can give school leaders a chance to create successful reform.
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"THE CHOICE" TRANSITIONS TO HIGH SCHOOL IN PHILADELPHIA: Every year, 8th graders in the Philadelphia public schools are faced with a choice that will influence the rest of their lives. GSE Ph.D. candidate Clarisse Haxton looks into which kids are prepared for the decision, which ones are not, and why.
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EDUCATION IN A DELIBERATIVE DEMOCRACY: At a time when the loudest voices dominate the public discourse, it can seem that we have forgotten how to reason together. Harris Sokoloff and the Penn Project for Civic Engagement offer a blueprint for productive citizen engagement.
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THE TEACHERS THAT CITY SCHOOLS NEED: All new teachers are at least a little scared on their first day of school, and this can be especially true for new teahers in city schools. How can we lower the anxiety?
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HAITI'S EDUCATION REDEVELOPMENT: A year after the earthquake that devastated Haiti, Penn GSE's Sharon Ravitch and Creutzer Mahurin, a senior leader in the Haitian Ministry of Education, are helping the country to rebuild its education system from the ground up.
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 VIRTUAL LEARNING: What kind of learning takes place when kids play in virtual worlds or design video games? Penn GSE Professor Yasmin Kafai is finding out.
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