GSE Press Releases
Penn GSE and Erudient Announce $10,000 Prize for Innovation in Borderless Education
Philadelphia, PA and Bangalore, India, Feb. 3rd, 2012 – Erudient and the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education (Penn GSE) proudly announce the 2012 Erudient Borderless Education Prize for Innovation in Education to Serve Emerging & Developed Countries. The newly established Borderless Education Prize, which awards $10,000 to the entrepreneur that best addresses educational challenges globally, rather than at a regional/country level, is part of the third annual 2012 Milken-Penn GSE Education Business Plan Competition.
Penn GSE and WHYY To Offer Video Production Course
Penn GSE has joined with WHYY to offer a new Learning Media Production Certificate Program for educators. Taught by GSE Films Director Amit Das and WHYY Director of Media Instruction Craig Santoro with additional WHYY personnel, the class is a hands-on, project-based course designed for teachers, corporate trainers, and after-school program staff.
Teresa P. Pica, In Memoriam
Teresa Pica, 66, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education and one of the world’s leading experts in the field of second language acquisition, died Nov. 14 after an illness of many months.
May 2012 Grads!
Applications for May 2012 graduation will be accepted online through Friday, January 27 without a late fee. From January 27 through February 17, applications for May 2012 graduation will be accepted with a $25 late fee.
Have an idea to transform education?
The 2012 Milken-Penn GSE Education Business Plan Competition is open for business.
The world’s only business plan competition devoted solely to education is now accepting submissions. The competition awards five prizes, totaling $90,000, in a number of categories.
Launched in 2009, the competition was founded to fill a striking need in the education world. While recent decades have seen the growth of entrepreneurial start-ups seeded from numerous research universities, those efforts have focused largely on biotech, software, engineering, and medicine.
Sokoloff Receives Shepherd of Peace Award
Penn GSE faculty member Harris Sokoloff has been honored for his work encouraging civil dialogue, peace, and social justice in Philadelphia.
On October 19, the Good Shepherd Mediation Program awarded Sokoloff, who serves as director of the Penn Project on Civic Engagement (PPCE), with its Fifth Annual Shepherd of Peace award.
Teen Competition Seeks the Next Great American Writer
Truman Capote, Joyce Carol Oates, and Sylvia Plath, all launched their creative careers with the help of a national competition for teens. The Philadelphia Writing Project is now inviting today's aspiring artists in grades 7-12 to submit entries in that competition, the 2012 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards.
Lenape Nation Featured in Penn GSE Film
As Chief Red Hawk explains the Lenape story, The Prophecy of the Fourth Crow, “The First Crow was the Lenape before the coming of the Europeans. The Second Crow symbolized the death and destruction of our culture. The Third Crow was our people going underground and hiding. The Fourth Crow was the Lenape becoming caretakers again and working with everybody to restore this land.”
GSE & Chilean University Team Up
Penn GSE has joined with the Catholic University of Chile, Santiago in a collaboration focused on educational leadership.
Minority Teacher Shortage: Fact or Fiction?
In a newly released study, Penn GSE Professors Richard Ingersoll and Henry May report that recent efforts to recruit minority teachers, and place them in disadvantaged schools, have been remarkably successful -- although those efforts have been undermined by a widespread failure to retain these new recruits.