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Faculty Experts

Penn GSE faculty members are some of the most knowledgeable and innovative experts on education in the world, on everything from NCLB to historically black colleges and universities. Please contact us if you would like to interview a faculty member for print or broadcast news, guest commentary, or expert analysis. GSE faculty also produce op/ed pieces that can be republished in print or online; get the details here.

To request an interview, please contact Penn GSE's New Officer Jill DiSanto-Haines, at 215-898-4820 or jdisanto@pobox.upenn.edu.


Achievement Gap 

  • Andy Porter: testing and measurement, measuring school leadership, the achievement gap, psychometrics, student assessment, curricular content, No Child Left Behind 
  • Administration 

  • Torch Lytle: school and district leadership, urban education, budgets, university-assisted schools 
  • Mike Johanek: educational leadership, school-community relations, civic education 
  • Jon Supovitz: policy and school reform efforts, state takeovers, improving instruction 
  • Matthew Hartley: higher education governance
  • Harris Sokoloff: central office leadership and school/community relations
  • Budgets

  • Joni Finney: public financing of higher education, college access, accountability in higher education
  • Laura Perna: equity and access to higher education, paying for college, affordability and choice
  • Torch Lytle: school and district leadership, urban education, budgets, university-assisted schools
  • Bullying / School violence

  • Mike Nakkula: adolescent development, counseling and prevention, youth mentoring
  • Caroline Watts: school climate, school mental health, social-emotional development
  • Howard Stevenson: high-risk youth, black boys, aggressive behavior, bullying, resiliency
  • Duane Thomas: bullies, youth aggression, youth violence, violence prevention
  • Joan Goodman: school climate, moral education 
  • Diversity / Educational Equity

  • Shaun Harper: achievement in college, racism and gender disparities in higher education
  • Marybeth Gasman: historically black college and universities (HBCUs), African-American educational leadership
  • Howard Stevenson: high-risk youth, black boys, aggressive behavior, bullying, resiliency
  • Vivian Gadsden: literacy and at-risk youth, fathers and families, intergenerational communication 
  • Mike Nakkula: adolescent development, counseling and prevention, youth mentoring
  • Laura Perna: equity and access to higher education, paying for college, affordability and choice
  • Joni Finney: public financing of higher education, college access, accountability in higher education
  • Entrepreneurship

  • Doug Lynch: educational entrepreneurship, work-based and corporate learning
  • Higher Education

  • Bob Zemsky: institutional mission development, market analyses in higher education, for-profit colleges, impact of globalization
  • Matt Hartley: academic governance of higher education, institutional mission development, civic education 
  • Joni Finney: public financing of higher education, college access, accountability in higher education
  • Laura Perna: equity and access to higher education, paying for college, affordability and choice
  • Marybeth Gasman: historically black college and universities (HBCUs), African-American educational leadership
  • Shaun Harper: achievement in college, racism and gender disparities in higher education
  • History of Education

  • John Puckett: U.S. education history, history of research universities, history of community schools
  • Marybeth Gasman: historically black college and universities (HBCUs), African-American educational leadership
  • Immigration

  • Stanton Wortham: immigrant communities, Latino Diaspora
  • Gerald Campano: development of identity, K-8 literacy
  • Sigal Ben-Porath: political philosophy, ideas of citizenship
  • Nancy Hornberger: language and education policy, educational experiences of immigrant youth, transnationalism 
  • Ameena Ghaffar-Kucher: immigrants and schooling, educational experiences of immigrant youth, transnationalism 
  • International Education

  • Alan Ruby: education in developing countries, globalization, education reform
  • Sharon Ravitch: international research in developing countries, multicultural teacher/counselor education 
  • Doug Lynch: educational entrepreneurship, work-based and corporate learning
  • Nancy Hornberger: language and education policy, educational experiences of immigrant youth, transnationalism 
  • Dan Wagner: international education and development, literacy and learning, language acquisition, multilingualism
  • Xinyin Chen: cross-cultural developmental psychology, child social-emotional development, peer relationships
  • Sigal Ben-Porath: political philosophy, ideas of citizenship
  • Yuko Butler: language assessment, second language acquisition, cross-cultural learning and teaching
  • Kathryn Howard: multilingual language development, language socialization, English language learning and teaching
  • Ameena Ghaffar-Kucher: curriculum development in international contexts, educational access and equity issues in developing countries
  • Literacy

  • Nancy Hornberger: language and education policy, educational experiences of immigrant youth, transnationalism 
  • Betsy Rymes: TESOL, linguistic anthropology of education, language socialization, multilingualism, youth culture
  • Gerald Campano: development of identity, K-8 literacy
  • Vivian Gadsden: literacy and at-risk youth, fathers and families, intergenerational communication 
  • Diane Waff: literacy and learning, teacher professional development, urban school reform
  • Anne Pomerantz: language and social identity, second language learning
  • Dan Wagner: international education and development, literacy and learning, language
  • No Child Left Behind

  • Andy Porter: testing and measurement, measuring school leadership, the achievement gap, psychometrics, student assessment, curricular content, No Child Left Behind
  • Jon Supovitz: policy and school reform efforts, state takeovers, improving instruction 
  • Torch Lytle: school and district leadership, urban education, budgets, university-assisted schools
  • Policy

  • Joni Finney: public financing of higher education, college access, accountability in higher education
  • Andy Porter: testing and measurement, measuring school leadership, the achievement gap, psychometrics, student assessment, curricular content, No Child Left Behind
  • Laura Desimone: policy effects on teaching and learning, policy implementation
  • Jon Supovitz: policy and school reform efforts, state takeovers, improving instruction 
  • Richard Ingersoll: teacher shortages, teacher qualifications, turnover rates
  • Nancy Hornberger: language and education policy, educational experiences of immigrant youth, transnationalism 
  • Harris Sokoloff: deliberative democracy and school/community relations
  • Laura Perna: equity and access to higher education, paying for college, affordability and choice
  • Dan Wagner: international education and development, literacy and learning, language
  • Teachers / Teaching

  • Frances Rust: teach preparation, teacher quality, school improvement
  • Janine Remillard: math, math teaching and learning, parent involvement, math in urban classrooms
  • Richard Ingersoll: teacher shortages, teacher qualifications, turnover rates
  • Yasmin Kafai: learning technologies, virtual worlds, online games
  • Susan Yoon: science and technology education, learning sciences, complex systems in education
  • Susan Lytle: literacy and learning in adolescents and adults, teacher learning, teacher education and professional development, urban education
  • Technology

  • Yasmin Kafai: learning technologies, virtual worlds, online games
  • Susan Yoon: science and technology education, learning sciences, complex systems in education
  • Dan Wagner: international education and development, literacy and learning, language
  • Testing

  • Jon Supovitz: policy and school reform efforts, state takeovers, improving instruction 
  • Andy Porter: testing and measurement, measuring school leadership, the achievement gap, psychometrics, student assessment, curricular content, No Child Left Behind
  • Henry May: measurement and test design, statistics, research design
  • Urban Education

  • Torch Lytle: school and district leadership, urban education, budgets, university-assisted schools
  • Janine Remillard: math, math teaching and learning, parent involvement, math in urban classrooms
  • Frances Rust: teach preparation, teacher quality, school improvement
  • Yasmin Kafai: learning technologies, virtual worlds, online games
  • Susan Yoon: science and technology education, learning sciences, complex systems in education
  • Vivian Gadsden: literacy and at-risk youth, fathers and families, intergenerational communication 
  • Susan Lytle: literacy and learning in adolescents and adults, teacher learning, teacher education and professional development, urban education

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