March 22, 2024
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Bonilla highlights the shift from vocational training to career technical education, emphasizing its role in reducing dropout rates and promoting equitable learning opportunities.

  • Race, Equity & Inclusion
  • Education Policy & Analysis
March 15, 2024
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Penn GSE Associate Professor Brooks Bowden leaning against a chalkboard

Bowden’s research demonstrates how lenient grading policies in North Carolina high schools lead to reduced student effort and wider academic gaps, questioning current educational reforms.

  • Education Policy & Analysis
  • Teaching & Learning
March 8, 2024
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Penn GSE Dean Katharine Strunk poses outside against a glass façade

While teacher turnover peaked in 2022, the attrition rate remains stubbornly high.

  • Education Policy & Analysis
February 27, 2024
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Ericka S. Weathers, with a warm smile, stands confidently, her braided hair elegantly styled into an updo, complemented by large hoop earrings, a vibrant beaded necklace, and a chic beige blazer, reflected against a glass surface.

Assistant professor calls for a new, more equitable funding formula that addresses racial and socioeconomic disparities.

  • Education Policy & Analysis
  • Higher Education
February 15, 2024
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The former Institute for Research on Higher Education director critiques Governor Shapiro’s higher ed funding plan for Pennsylvania, emphasizing the need for sustainable priorities and systemic policy leadership.

  • Education Policy & Analysis
  • Higher Education
February 13, 2024
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Headshots of Peter Eckel, Sharon Ravitch, and Karen Weaver

Books by Peter Eckel, Sharon Ravitch, and Karen Weaver explore a wide range of topics including university systems in former Soviet republics, successful leadership mindsets, and the money and politics behind college athletics.

  • Education Innovation & Entrepreneurship
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  • Higher Education
  • Leadership
February 7, 2024
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The Penn GSE professor and applied economist emphasizes the critical role buses play in ensuring attendance and academic success.

  • Education Policy & Analysis
February 6, 2024
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Richard Ingersoll

Ingersoll provides critical insights into the evolving nature of teacher preparation across the U.S. in Education Week.

  • Education Policy & Analysis
  • Teaching & Learning
February 2, 2024
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MRMJJ Presidential Professor Sigal Ben-Porath says faculty must take the lead in fostering constructive dialogue across differences and creating safe environments for open discussion.

  • Race, Equity & Inclusion
  • Education Policy & Analysis
  • Higher Education
January 5, 2024
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A new year means a new version of the RHSU Edu-Scholar Public Influence Rankings, with the 2024 edition announced yesterday by Education Week. Nine researchers from the University of Pennsylvania made the annual 200-member list, which was created by Rick Hess of the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) to gauge the public impact of ed scholars’ contributions.

  • Education Policy & Analysis
  • Higher Education
  • Leadership
  • Teaching & Learning

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