Yasmin B. Kafai, Penn GSE
Awards & Honors
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December 5, 2018

Yasmin Kafai

Yasmin Kafai has received a $97,000 grant through Google's Computer Science Education Research Awards. The grant will support the MADE (Music Art Design with Etextiles) program, which will introduce students in Career and Technical Education courses to more advanced computing concepts through electronic textile designs...

Amy Stornaiuolo, Penn GSE
Awards & Honors
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December 5, 2018

Amy Stornaiuolo

Amy Stornaiuolo, with Anna Smith of Illinois State University and Nathan Phillips of the University of Illinois at Chicago, has been awarded the 2018 Arthur Applebee Award for Excellence in Research on Literacy for the article "Developing a transliteracies framework for a connected world." The award is...

Nelson Flores, Penn GSE
Awards & Honors
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December 5, 2018

Nelson Flores

Nelson Flores, with Sofia Chaparro of the University of Colorado Denver, was awarded the James E. Alatis Prize for Research on Language Policy and Planning in Educational Contexts for the paper, "What counts as language education policy? Developing a materialist anti-racist approach to language activism."  The Alatis...

Howard C. Stevenson, Penn GSE
In the Media
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November 28, 2018
, NJTV News

Childhood trauma linked to health issues later in life

Howard Stevenson speaks about the long-term mental health impacts of adverse childhood experiences in communities of color.

Yasmin B. Kafai, Penn GSE
Awards & Honors
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November 20, 2018

Yasmin Kafai

Yasmin Kafai, with Co-Principal Investigators Orkan Telhan of PennDesign and Karen Hogan of Biorealize, has received a $99,855 grant from the National Science Foundation. The grant will support the project "Learn.design.compute with bio: A Workshop for Connecting Computational Thinking with Synthetic Biology...

Ryan S. Baker, Penn GSE
Penn GSE News
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November 19, 2018

Schools aren’t using the apps they are paying for, study finds

Penn GSE’s Ryan Baker co-authored the study, which raises questions about how schools are using technology.

Education Innovation & Entrepreneurship
Teaching & Learning
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Penn GSE News
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November 19, 2018

Navin Valrani, W’93, GED’18, and Monica Valrani

Navin Valrani, W’93, GED’18, and his wife, Monica, believe passionately in the power of education.

Jonathan Zimmerman, Penn GSE
In the Media
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November 19, 2018
, The Chronicle of Higher Education

Why prison reform must include Pell Grant access

Jonathan Zimmerman argues for the restoration of access to federal student aid for incarcerated people.

Jonathan Zimmerman, Penn GSE
In the Media
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November 13, 2018
, The New York Review of Books

‘Brown’: Without deliberate speed

Jonathan Zimmerman reviews three books on the desegregation of schools after the Supreme Court's 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision and unpacks the ruling's ongoing legal and historical questions.

Penn GSE News
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November 12, 2018

Brian Burt opens 11th annual Visiting Faculty Scholars of Color series

The series will feature three more talks from visiting scholars in the spring semester.

Higher Education
Race, Equity & Inclusion
Joni Finney, Penn GSE
In the Media
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November 12, 2018
, Nashville Tennessean

Special report: Where you live may predict your success in college. What Tennessee is doing to close the gap.

Joni Finney is quoted on the Tennessee Promise program and the challenges ahead for the state to maintain momentum and close achievement gaps.

Ryan S. Baker, Penn GSE
In the Media
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November 8, 2018
, EdSurge

Why aren't schools using the apps they pay for?

Ryan Baker is quoted on the impact of local implementation conditions on the use and effectiveness of learning apps in schools.

Penn GSE News
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November 7, 2018
Participants at the San Francisco workshop work in a small group

Penn GSE brings workshop for education entrepreneurs to San Francisco

Catalyst @ Penn GSE is hosting “Entrepreneurship in Education: A Primer for Educators, Entrepreneurs, Researchers, and Investors” November 28 at Wharton San Francisco. This half-day workshop will introduce the skills and dispositions of successful entrepreneurship, whether applied to building a product, company, initiative, or program.

Education Innovation & Entrepreneurship
Leadership
Penn GSE News
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November 5, 2018

Penn GSE Gets HEARD

Penn GSE launches HEARD: The Hub for Equity, Anti-Oppression, Research, and Development.

Race, Equity & Inclusion
Joni Finney, Penn GSE
Penn GSE News
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November 2, 2018

High stakes for higher ed in Georgia gubernatorial election

In a new report, Penn GSE's Joni Finney spotlights how Georgia's higher education system is falling short of its workforce needs.

Higher Education
Education Policy & Analysis
Penn GSE News
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November 2, 2018

Penn GSE Begins Process of Building Expansion

Penn GSE has taken the first steps this fall toward a state-of-the-art building expansion. Part of the Extraordinary Impact Campaign, the project aims to bring the majority of the School’s degree programs into a central location with flexible, technologically advanced learning spaces.

Education Innovation & Entrepreneurship
Faces of Philanthropy

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