A new study coauthored by Penn GSE’s Michael A. Gottfried is the first to show that teachers’ ability to teach in students’ home language, combined with a shared racial or ethnic background, drives greater academic gains.
Damani White-Lewis says that research agendas across the country have been impacted by administrative funding cuts and attitudes, which may mean longer hours for faculty.
As part of the fellowship, the Education Policy doctoral student who studies absenteeism will connect with graduate students from across campus who are all working to bridge their research and global policymaking.
Jonathan Zimmerman says that right-wing students are as eager as their left-leaning peers to censor allegedly ’problematic’ speech, and that And students across the political spectrum are biting their tongues, lest they incur the wrath of their opponents.
Robert Zemsky says that much of the curriculum in a 4-year college model is unnecessary and is pushing for the normalization of a 3-year college degree.
Betty Chandy, featured in WHYY's "The Pulse" around the 25th minute mark, says that teachers must turn their focus on the process of learning rather than the product of learning.
Julie Wollman says that low enrollment becomes a difficult calculus for higher education administrators who believe the major is important to offer but can't justify high overhead for professors to teach a very small number of students.
Eric Hartman, Penn GSE’s new director of the Executive Doctorate in Higher Education Management, argues in a Philadelphia Inquirer op-ed that Pennsylvania is better off when Americans and Chinese learn, trade, research, and innovate together.
Jonathan Zimmerman says large research universities are the big losers in the Trump administration's endowment tax hike and questions why an institution like Penn should pay more than smaller elite colleges and universities.
Former Dean Pam Grossman comments on what drives people to get into the field of education in an EdWeek article that asks “Can Gen Z Be Enticed to Teach?”
Amy Stornaiuolo notes the importance of fan fiction and other engagement in communities around popular media as an important way that young people build literacies and provides ways teachers can leverage the energy students bring to fan texts.
On May 17, in the Palestra, Penn GSE commemorated the achievements of the roughly 700 master’s and doctoral graduates at this year’s Commencement ceremony.
In a story syndicated to Chalkbeat and multiple other outlets, the Hechinger Report cites a 2023 study by Richard Ingersoll finding that most severe teacher shortages are in rural areas, largely because of high turnover.
Damani White-Lewis believes it is wrong to assume that a decline in white male professors is necessarily due to discrimination. He points out that the pool of candidates for academic positions–doctoral candidates and postdocs–has also become more diverse.
This award will support the assistant professor in Penn GSE’s Policy, Organizations, and Leadership division in a five-year research plan on institutional responses to truancy.
In The Key podcast, Karen Weaver discusses how recent NCAA policy changes, including NIL earnings, the transfer portal, and the House settlement, are reshaping college athletics and will have broad impacts across higher education.
Michael Gottfried found in new research that student absenteeism significantly lowers teacher job satisfaction, emphasizing that attendance policies should address the full classroom ecosystem to support both student learning and teacher wellbeing.
In a San Francisco public radio story, Quinn discusses how desegregation-era policies triggered lasting enrollment shifts and funding challenges in San Francisco’s public schools.
Robert Zemsky leads the College-in-3 Exchange initiative, which supports accelerated degree programs like BYU-Pathway’s as a means to “increase student success while decreasing student costs.”
Karen Weaver, a contributor to Forbes, reported that Judge Claudia Wilken delayed final approval of the NCAA’s $2.8 billion athlete pay settlement, highlighting concerns over new roster cap rules
Penn GSE students explored policy, shared research, and burnished their professional development at the recent Comparative and International Education Society conference in Chicago.
Jonathan Zimmerman expresses concern that the Trump administration's politicization of federal research funding threatens academic freedom, noting that recent self-censorship on campuses mirrors practices in authoritarian regimes.
Penn GSE alumni from across the academic spectrum have advised politicians, worked in the White House and the statehouse, and spurred change in our nation’s schools and universities thanks to their evidence-backed expertise in education policy.
Declining birth rates and rising tuition costs are making it difficult for small colleges to overcome enrollment declines, says Julie Wollman of the Graduate School of Education.
Professor of Practice Andrea Kane emphasizes the importance of educators and school leaders engaging with themselves, each other, and their school communities to navigate district policies, state laws, and complex or controversial topics in the classroom.
Pennsylvania House of Representatives’ Education Committee Chairmen Bryan Cutler and Peter Schweyer discussed how PA lawmakers plan to work together on public school budgets, special education funding, school choice, the PA State Board of Higher Education, and more.
Lorea Peterson Rodondo will graduate in May with a dual degree from Penn GSE and Wharton. She discusses her ambition to apply lessons learned to education in her hometown of Mexico City and reflects on her experience at Penn.
Jonathan Zimmerman expresses concern that the United States, traditionally a beneficiary of global academic migration, now faces a "real danger" of experiencing a reverse brain drain due to recent policies.
