April 14, 2016
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Fighting for Change in Public Education

To Helen Gym, C’93, GED’96, if the quality of American public education is at stake, so are the values at the heart of our democracy.

 

  • Education Policy & Analysis
  • Teaching & Learning
  • Alumni
April 14, 2016
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Fostering Critical Thinking in the Classroom

When Andrew Biros, C’10, GED’12, undertook his student-teaching assignment in Penn GSE’s Teacher Education Program, he found that too many of his pupils at University City High School in Philadelphia did not expect to be active participants in the classroom.

  • Education Policy & Analysis
  • Teaching & Learning
  • Alumni
April 14, 2016
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Creating Opportunity Through Education: Penn GSE Alumni Lead the Way

Learn how Penn GSE alumni are addressing insufficient funding, unidentified learning needs, poverty, and gaps in educational quality and availability.

  • Education Policy & Analysis
  • Teaching & Learning
  • Alumni
March 14, 2016
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Penn GSE’s Child Research Center assesses Philly pre-K needs

Researcher Whitney LeBoeuf discussed targeting areas of need for pre-K programs on Knowledge@Wharton Business Radio. 

 

  • Philadelphia Impact
  • Education Policy & Analysis
January 22, 2016
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Steinberg: New research shows need to reconsider how teacher evaluations are used

In Education Week, Matthew Steinberg discussed a new study he co-authored questioning the effectiveness of many evaluations.

 

  • Education Policy & Analysis
January 21, 2016
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Brookings interviews John Fantuzzo and Dennis Culhane about big data

The founders of Actionable Intelligence for Social Policy talked about how communities are using integrated data now, and what’s next.

 

  • Education Policy & Analysis
October 30, 2015
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Porter: Teachers need support to make standards work

In an op-ed for the Washington Post, C-SAIL director Andy Porter writes that the focus of education reform should be implementing more rigorous content, not standardized testing. 

 

  • Education Policy & Analysis
July 21, 2015
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Penn GSE alumna and former faculty member are rising leaders at IES

“I realized that I was never happier than when I was figuring out how to explain something complex in a way that would enable my audience of non-researchers to understand,” —Ruth Neild.

 

  • Education Policy & Analysis
June 17, 2015
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Penn GSE’s Andy Porter to head $10M center on the Common Core and other college-readiness standards

“C-SAIL situates Penn GSE and the University of Pennsylvania at the frontline of research into one of the nation’s most vital but fraught educational policy issues,” said Penn GSE dean Pam Grossman. “Porter and his team will provide one-on-one support to teachers as they grapple with incorporating standards into their classroom instruction, while also studying what works and what doesn’t on a national scale. Their center has the potential to move the needle on student learning.”

 

  • Education Policy & Analysis
June 17, 2015
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Jonathan Supovitz discusses the politics of the Common Core standards on Radio Times

Supovitz talked about the new standards, the tests that often come with them, and what the fight over the Common Core means for education. 

 

  • Education Policy & Analysis

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