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Dean Porter is pleased to announce to the GSE community that John Fantuzzo has been appointed the fourth Albert M. Greenfield Professor of Human Relations....
2.5.2008
When the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation set out to create a “Rhodes Scholarship” for teachers, one of the schools they turned to was Penn GSE. ...
1.24.2008
PHILADELPHIA --
Penn GSE, in conjunction with the University’s Center for East Asian Studies and the East Asian Languages and Civilization program, announces a new program in teacher preparation leading to both the M.S.Ed. degree and faculty recommendation for certification from the Pennsylvania Department of Education in secondary education: Mandarin Chinese Language and Culture....
11.14.2007
Andrew C. Porter, the dean of the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania, has been named to the board of trustees of the William T. Grant Foundation. Dr. Porter also serves on the GSE faculty as the George and Diane Weiss Professor of Education. ...
10.17.2007
The University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education (Penn GSE) has recently received research grants totaling almost $5M. ...
10.10.2007
On August 1, 2007, Andrew C. Porter began his tenure as Dean and George and Diane Weiss Professor of Education of Penn GSE....
9.6.2007
On July 17 to 19, 2007, the Graduate School of Education and the Fels Institute of Government will join with SchoolNet to cosponsor a three-day institute designed to provide educators with the tools they need to create and implement data-driven school improvement plans....
4.24.2007
The William Penn Foundation has awarded a three-year, $600,000 grant to the University of Pennsylvania in support of the Kids Integrated Data System (KIDS)....
3.30.2007
Penn GSe has introduced a new executive-style master’s-degree program for working educators and professionals interested in working as school counselors. ...
1.24.2007
Penn GSE is partnering with East China Normal University on the first-ever doctorate of education program offered in China. ...
12.7.2006
The University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education has secured a three-year, $800,000 grant - for a program called SPARK! - from the National Science Foundation to enrich science education for students in grades four through eight from six Philadelphia public schools. ...
12.7.2006
Are Americans committed to educating students to be both workers and citizens, as we have long proclaimed? Or have we lost sight of the need to prepare students to be contributing members of a democratic society? What might schools look like if citizenship mattered as much as reading and math?...
11.21.2006
As schools nationwide struggle to improve student achievement, educational experts and pundits propose competing models of leadership, with some placing responsibility on principals, some on teachers, and still others on parents....
11.20.2006
This summer, Penn GSE entered into a partnership with Facing History and Ourselves (FHAO), a non-profit organization that prepares students for humane and engaged citizenship through the study of some of history’s darkest days....
11.8.2006
New Program Prepares Learning Leaders to Strategically Influence Results in Their Organizations...
8.29.2006
African-Americans are more likely to get their college education in one of the 19 Southern or Southern-border states than in the rest of the country.
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8.1.2006
The Board of Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania has approved the appointment of GSE Professor Stanton Wortham as Interim Dean of the Graduate School of Education, effective August 1, 2006. ...
5.26.2006
Dr. Matt Hartley, assistant professor of education, has been awarded a National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship to pursue research on the civic engagement movement in higher education. ...
5.10.2006
Penn GSE Professor Margaret Beale Spencer was among the national artists, writers, and scholars selected as a winner of the 2006 Alphonse Fletcher, Sr., Fellowship. ...
5.10.2006
On May 10, Susan H. Fuhrman was approved as the new president of Teachers College, Columbia University, where she will take office on August 1....
5.9.2006
More than a generation after the end of the modem civil rights movement, social critics, reformers and scholars remain concerned over the seemingly intractable racial divisions that mark American society. ...
4.25.2006
In her recent book, Penn GSE Research Associate Sigal Ben-Porath considers how democracies can preserve civic education in times of war....
4.25.2006
The Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania has announced that James “Torch” Lytle, Superintendent and Chief School Administrator of Trenton, New Jersey, schools since 1998, will be joining the School’s faculty as a practice professor, effective July 1, 2006....
4.25.2006
The Penn Center for Educational Leadership (PCEL), housed at Penn GSE, has received a $4.9M grant from the Annenberg Foundation to launch the Distributed Leadership Initiative, a four-year collaboration with the Philadelphia School District to promote shared leadership at the individual school level....
2.22.2006
A new breed of learning executive has emerged in the past decade to take on the challenge of both running learning like a business and making learning a critical contributor to organizational success. It takes a complex skill set to run an efficient learning function that is strategically aligned with and responsive to the needs of a business....
2.13.2006
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