Research Notes

Penn GSE faculty and researchers explore the issues at the forefront of American education today -- urban education, equity and diversity, educational opportunity and student achievement, and the management of complex organizations. They engage in high-impact research, innovation, and training in public education, as well as in literacy, psychology, social policy, and higher and adult education. The following notes present a sampling of recent studies and findings from Penn GSE faculty and researchers.

Doing the Math: Richard Ingersoll and David Perda on The Mathematics and Science Teacher Shortage: Fact and Myth

What We Know about Professional Development: Laura Desimone on Improving Impact Studies of Teachers' Professional Development: Toward Better Conceptualization and Measures

The Turn of the Page: Lawrence Sipe and Anne Brightman on Young Children's Interpretations of Page Breaks in Contemporary Picture Storybooks

STEM Graduate Education and Minority Students: Marybeth Gasman, Laura Perna, Susan Yoon, Noah Drezner, Valerie Lundy-Wagner, Enakshi Bose, and Shannon Gary on The Path to Graduate School in Science and Engineering for Underrepresented Students of Color

Students' Behavior vs. Teachers' Expectations: Duane Thomas, Stephanie Coard, Howard Stevenson, Keisha Bentley, and Pamela Zamel on Racial and Emotional Factors Predicting Teachers' Perceptions of Classroom Behavioral Maladjustment for Urban African American Male Youth

Racism and the Role of Racial Socialization: Howard Stevenson and Edith Arrington on Racial/Ethnic Socializaton Mediates Perceived Racism and the Racial Identity of African American Adolescents

Teacher Turnover in General and Special Ed: Erling Boe, Lynne Cook, and Robert Sunderland on Teacher Turnover: Examining Exit Attrition, Teaching Area Transfer, and School Migration

Evaluating Assessment-for-Learning Programs: Elliot Weinbaum on Learning about Assessment: An Evaluation of a Ten-State Effort to Build Assessment Capacity in High Schools

Serious Language Play: Kathryn Howard on Breaking In and Spinning Out: Repetition and Decalibration in Thai Children's Play Genres

Language Learning in College: Rachel Reynolds, Kathryn Howard, and Julia Deak on Heritage Language Learners in First-Year Foreign Language Courses: A Report of General Data across Learner Subtypes

What Education Gives Anthropology: Stanton Wortham on Linguistic Anthropology of Education

Children and the Problem of Respect: Joan Goodman on Respect-due and Respect-earned: Negotiating Student-Teacher Relationships.

Teacher Research: The Philadelphia Story: Susan Lytle, Dina Portnoy, Diane Waff, and Molly Buckley on Teacher Research in Urban Philadelphia: Twenty Years Working Within, Against, and Beyond the System

An Instrument for Measuring School Leadership: Ellen Goldring, Andy Porter, Joseph Murphy, Stephen Elliott, and Xiu Cravens on Assessing Learning-Centered Leadership: Connections to Research, Professional Standards, and Current Practices