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.
The Philadelphia Inquirer interviews new Philly teachers Faith Applegate and Sophia Leung, current Urban Teaching Residency program students who co-founded a group for aspiring teachers as Penn undergrads.
The Philadelphia Inquirer covers the first cohort of the Academy at Penn, a college- and career-readiness program for Philly students from underserved communities, with one participant calling the program “a 10 out of 10.”
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.
Robert Zemsky discusses the "wild" success of the College-in-3 movement, as well as some of the challenges it still faces, including resistance from some more traditional fields of study.
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.
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?”
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.
In an interview with NBC10 Philadelphia, Joy Anderson Davis, a senior instructional math coach at Penn GSE, shares tips for parents to help their kids continue to learn during the summer months.
On KYW Newsradio's The Week in Philly podcast, Karen Weaver discusses the impact getting a WNBA team will have on the City of Philadelphia and in particular on the city's girls' and women's sports landscape, including at the high school and collegiate levels.
The Boston Globe’s editorial board praises Robert Zemsky’s College-in-3 initiative and advocates for Massachusetts regulators to allow colleges and universities to begin rolling out more three-year bachelor’s degree programs.
WHYY profiles Penn GSE's partnership with the School District of Philadelphia and nonprofits to form the Academy at Penn, boosting college and career pathways for students from underserved communities.
Janine Remillard says that in many math classes, a small handful of students answer all the questions, while those who either don’t understand, are less interested, or need more time tend to zone out. She provides insight into instructional strategies she uses in her math teacher training classes.
Constance Clayton Professor of Urban Education Howard Stevenson and his brother Bryan, a civil rights attorney and author of the best-selling book Just Mercy, reflect on their Delaware childhood, their social justice work and how to make sense of these troubled times on WHYY's The Connection.
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.
Penn GSE, at the School District of Philadelphia's request, is offering eighth- and ninth-grade Algebra 1 teachers a fellowship designed to teach them different ways to explain algebraic functions.
Penn GSE will work with the School District of Philadelphia and Neubauer Family Foundation to support math instruction for students. Dean Katharine Strunk says, “We are honored to support teachers with the tools, training, and strategies that will help their students thrive in this critical subject.”
Julie Wollman notes that, "The pressures on a president are entirely different from a provost’s, given the public attention, the much heavier stress, and responsibilities," and speculates that Rutgers will choose someone who has already proven they can do the job for their next president.
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.
Kandi Wiens says that burnout, especially in the workplace, “ultimately comes down to a misalignment, or sometimes referred to as a mismatch, between someone’s personality or temperament and the environment that they are in," and provides tips for addressing this problem.
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.
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.
Ross Aikins supports integrating AI into education, emphasizing that universities must evolve to prepare students for a future shaped by generative AI.
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.”
Kandi Wiens says that resilient, successful people manage workplace stress by challenging negative assumptions, interrupting catastrophic thinking, and focusing on what is actually true in stressful situations rather than creating self-critical narratives.
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
A profile on Furness High School highlights the launch of “The Academy of Penn,” a program designed to support first-generation college students and those from under-resourced communities through academic assistance, career exposure, and social-emotional resources.
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.
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.
Laura Perna notes that students working over 20 hours a week tend to have lower academic performance, as limited time can hinder their success in college.
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.
Barbara Kurshan was named one of the 100 most influential people in e-learning for her leadership in advancing innovation at the intersection of education, technology, and entrepreneurship.
