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Remembering Dell Hymes 1927 - 2009

A brilliant anthropologist, linguist, and folklorist, Dell Hathaway Hymes joined Penn as a professor of anthropology in 1965 and served as dean of the Graduate School of Education from 1975-1987. After his tenure at GSE, Dr. Hymes moved to Virginia and took up a joint appointment of anthropology and English at the University of Virginia, where he remained until his retirement in 1998.

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Penn and Milken Family Foundation Launch Business Plan Competition to Improve Education

The University of Pennsylvania has teamed up with the Milken Family Foundation to launch the Milken-Penn GSE Prize for Business Plans in Education, the first competition specifically aimed at stimulating entrepreneurship and addressing challenges in education, developing innovative solutions that boost student achievement and strengthening school effectiveness.

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Call for Proposals: 31st Annual Ethnography in Education Forum

"Creativity, Crisis, and Qualitative Research: Re-imagining Education in a Changing World"

31st Annual Ethnography in Education Research Forum is now accepting proposals!