Penn GSE News
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March 24, 2023

Tony Alleyne helps prepare high schoolers for college and beyond

The mid-career alum founded Delaware College Scholars, a free college prep program to support under-resourced high school and college students. The organization has a 100 percent high school graduation rate across all the state’s 19 districts.

Penn GSE News
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March 15, 2023
Students, teachers and facilitators are pictured in a school during a recent math festival organized by Penn GSE’s Responsive Math Teaching project. They’re gathered around a table with games and activities spread out. Three middle school-age students in the foreground are completing an activity while an instructor looks on, offering advice.

On Pi Day or any day, math festivals spread joy and love of learning

Penn GSE’s Responsive Math Teaching (RMT) partnership is promoting math literacy in local schools.

Penn GSE News
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March 14, 2023
A headshot of Philadelphia native Quinta Brunson. The Emmy award-winning actress/writer/producer/comedian will deliver this year’s keynote address at the 2023 Penn GSE Commencement ceremony.

Quinta Brunson named 2023 Commencement speaker

The Emmy award-winning actress/writer/producer/comedian is known for her hit ABC comedy Abbott Elementary, which she created, executive produces, and stars in.

Press Releases
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March 11, 2023

Eight of the top opportunities and challenges in global higher education

Global Initiatives
Penn GSE News
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March 8, 2023
A group of teenage high school students hanging out during a recent Black Girls Literacies Project meeting. Everyone is casually dressed and comfortable. They’re seated around a coffee table piled high with school boxes, art supplies and snacks. They’re in the middle of doing a project. Everyone is happy and smiling, and several of the students are making the peace sign with their hands. It looks fun and friendly.

Black Girls Literacies Project promotes self-care and community for Philadelphia teens

Doctoral student Barrett Rosser and the Philadelphia Writing Project are expanding the notion of literacy to help young Black women express self-love, build community and foster their identities.

Philadelphia Impact
Language, Literacy & Culture
Penn GSE News
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March 3, 2023
A teacher – a Black man with a trimmed beard in a white shirt and tie – sits facing the camera. He is at a table during a breakout session. He is smiling animatedly and speaking with a small, diverse group of students. Similar groups working at other tables are slightly out of focus in the background.

DVCEE Leadership Institutes encourage students to speak up

The Delaware Valley Consortium for Excellence and Equity helps middle and high school student leaders find their voices. The organization recently held its annual 2-day training for more than 700 students and faculty from 25 school districts.

 

Philadelphia Impact
Teaching & Learning
Penn GSE News
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February 28, 2023
Colorful graphic of women of multiple races and ages mingling

Upcoming Women in Higher Education Summit offers staff and faculty a chance to inspire – and be inspired

Now in its eighth year, the March 16 event is organized by the Dean’s office. The keynote speaker is Tamara Greenfield King, Penn’s interim vice provost for University Life.

Race, Equity & Inclusion
Higher Education
Leadership
Press Releases
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February 16, 2023

14th annual Milken-Penn GSE Education Business Plan Competition now accepting applications

Education Innovation & Entrepreneurship
Penn GSE News
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February 16, 2023

First cohort of Jacobs Education Impact Prize Fellows receives funding to develop impact ventures

The fellowships are part of a partnership announced last year to advance entrepreneurial innovation in education.

Global Initiatives
Education Innovation & Entrepreneurship
Penn GSE News
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February 15, 2023
A montage of alternating book covers. The two new books in the montage were written by Penn GSE professors Sigal Ben-Porath and Jonathan Zimmerman.

New books from Penn GSE professors focus on free speech on campus

Sigal Ben-Porath and Jonathan Zimmerman study the boundaries of free speech and censorship in classrooms and curriculums.

Language, Literacy & Culture
Teaching & Learning
Penn GSE News
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February 10, 2023

Op-Ed: On public education, Pennsylvania can look like New Jersey or Texas

In the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Penn GSE doctoral candidate Angus McLeod examines how education in Pennsylvania will evolve now that its public school finance system has been ruled unconstitutional.

Education Policy & Analysis
Press Releases
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February 6, 2023

Education experts available for ChatGPT, AI language model stories and background

Penn GSE News
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February 3, 2023
A photo in a classroom. Professor Sade Bonilla is leaning down at desk level to talk with two of her seated students whose backs are to the camera. They are all deep in conversation.

Sade Bonilla studies how to engage high school students

Bonilla found that an ethnic studies course in a Bay area district increased engagement and graduation rates for students identified as “at-risk” of dropping out of high school. Now the state of California will see if ethnic studies can help every student in the state – an optimistic goal that’s not without challenges, she explains.

Education Policy & Analysis
Jonathan Zimmerman, Penn GSE
In the Media
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February 3, 2023
, The Washington Times

Survey finds Americans divided over how much attention to give Black History Month

Most adults think Black History Month is integral to the American story — but they disagree over whether it gets too much attention, according to a recent survey focused on polarization around American history and how to defuse the culture wars.
 
The results mean public schools need to do a better job of teaching both the history of minority groups and “what binds all of us together,” says Professor Jonathan Zimmerman, a #PennGSEExpert in the history of education.
Penn GSE News
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January 31, 2023

Op-Ed: Africana Studies Can Save Education—and the World

Growing up, Ismael Jimenez loved learning but not school. Now an adjunct professor in Penn GSE's UTAP program, Jimenez explains what he means and makes the case that Africana Studies can save education in a recent op-ed for Education Week.

Race, Equity & Inclusion
Penn GSE News
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January 30, 2023
A close-up of a senior staff member signing his name with a white marker on a blue Penn flag. It will be flown above the construction project over the next few months.

Penn GSE renovation and expansion project celebrates a significant milestone

The newly combined building “topped off” this week as part of the School’s first large construction project since 2001. Enrollment has more than doubled since then.

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