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Educational redevelopment in Haiti
GSE faculty member Sharon Ravitch is leading an educational-redevelopment project in Haiti to help rebuild the country's academic infrastructure after the January earthquake.
College Men, Masculinities, and Minority Student Achievement
GSE faculty member Shaun Harper presents research on the experiences of minority men in higher education settings
Math Revolution at Penn GSE
Middle school teachers from across Philadelphia gathered at GSE to learn about a kind of math that gets students excited about math-related concepts. Professor Janine Remillard explains that, simply by using everyday things that are familiar to them, urban kids can learn math more easily — and the knowledge sticks.
Visiting Faculty Scholars of Color
The Visiting Faculty Scholars of Color Lecture Series brings faculty of color from across the country to share their research with the GSE community.
Most recently, urban sociologist Dr. Pedro Noguera, Peter L. Agnew Professor of Education at New York University, presented "A Bolder and Broader Approach to School Reform: Why More of the Same Won't Create the Schools We Need."
Race in the Academy
The Race in the Academy Lecture Series provides aopportunities for the Penn community to engage around issues of race and ethnicity in the context of education.
In 2010, Stacey Lee, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, spoke on "The Racialization of Asian Americans and the Rhetoric of Post-Raciality." Her research focuses on the ways that race, class, gender, and local contexts influence the educational experiences of Asian American youth.
The Ethnography Forum
The Center for Urban Ethnography convenes the Ethnography in Education Research Forum, the largest annual meeting of qualitative researchers in education, now in its thirty-second year. The theme of the 2011 Ethnography Forum was "Immigration and Migration: Ethnography in Education in Dynamic Times and Spaces."