Penn GSE News Archive
Bernie Sanders unveils education plan to eliminate student loan debt
Joni E. Finney said presidential candidate Bernie Sanders’s plan to eliminate student loan debt “doesn’t match the complexity of the cost education problem.”
Teachers push for books with more diversity, fewer stereotypes
Ebony Elizabeth Thomas is quoted on historical and present-day patterns in the literary representations of people of color that are accessible to students in classroom libraries.
Where the presidential candidates went to school
Jonathan Zimmerman comments on 2020 presidential candidates' educational backgrounds and what history reveals about how experience with public schooling relates to policymaking.
Saddled with debt, recent grads can't save
Joni Finney speaks about the role colleges and universities have played in the national student loan debt crisis by increasing tuition rates and failing to clearly explain the costs of attendance.
65 Years After 'Brown v. Board,' Where Are All the Black Educators?
Richard Ingersoll’s research on teacher diversity indicates that the increase in the number of Black teachers over the past three decades is a smaller increase than any other group of teachers except for Native American teachers, and that Black teachers are not evenly distributed across jobs.