Penn GSE News Archive
The Common Core explained
Andy Porter and Morgan Polikoff of C-SAIL provide a thorough history and explanation of the Common Core State Standards.
Managing Your Mission-Critical Knowledge
Originally appearing in 2015, this article by Martin Ihrig is a 2015 McKinsey Award Finalist.
How to Talk to Your Kids about Donald Trump
Abby Reisman suggests parents and teachers can help students “use history to make sense of the present.”
1st Graders Make Significant Growth With Reading Recovery Program, Study Shows
New CPRE study was one of the largest and most rigorous ever implemented in the field of education.
Low Graduation Rates Among Black Athletes
Sports columnist Kevin Blackistone speaks with NPR's Morning Edition about Shaun Harper's new report.
Black athletes playing men’s hoops, football lag behind in degrees
Shaun Harper's Center for the Study of Race and Equity in Education at Penn GSE finds Black male student-athletes in NCAA Power 5 schools lag in graduation rates.
What GOP candidates got wrong — and right — about Common Core
Andy Porter, of C-SAIL, helps fact-check GOP candidates' debate answers about the Common Core.
Harassment of female gamers an issue at SXSW and beyond
Yasmin Kafai notes that it's only recently that women players have been recognized as valid gamers in the eyes of companies.
Protests against campus racism don’t threaten free speech. They embrace it.
In this op-ed, Shaun Harper argues that campus protestors are looking for more dialogue, not less.