Penn GSE News Archive
Wendy Chan was awarded $25,000 by the American Educational Research Association for the project “The Generalizability of Deeper Learning Using Small Area Estimation.” In an extension to the earlier Study of Deeper Learning by the American Institutes for Research, Dr. Chan will use hierarchical Bayesian models to estimate the generalized impact of the deeper learning approaches on the proportion of on-time graduation rates among high school students in California and New York. This study is the first to generalize the impacts of deeper learning and to apply small area estimation methods to generalization when the small areas are defined using a generalizability index.
What to know about lists of financially challenged colleges
Robert Zemsky spoke about the silence from colleges and universities experiencing institutional financial difficulties. “The problem is we’re in a period of time when higher education feels itself increasingly the victim,” he said. “The victim of both public policy but also public discourse. As an enterprise, it doesn’t know how to handle that.”
Teaching impeaching: History comes to life in school as teachers seize on this historic moment. Here’s what some are doing—and how
Dean Pam Grossman and Sigal Ben-Porath offer advice on addressing impeachment in the classroom.
Nelson Flores has been awarded a $50,000 Spencer Conference Grant to bring together researchers and practitioners to develop a research and policy agenda that works to counteract anti-Blackness in language education. The co-PIs on the project are Dr. Uju Anya from Penn State and Dr. Tia Madkins from University of Texas-Austin.
A Pasco man's journey from cleaning schools to teaching in them
Richard Ingersoll discusses the important connections that male teachers can make with students.