Ameena Ghaffar-Kucher, Penn GSE
In the Media
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January 21, 2019
, Inside Higher Ed

B.O. No

Ameena Ghaffar-Kucher critiques a controversial email about personal hygiene sent by a University of Houston professor, proposing alternative responses that could avoid microaggressions and factual inaccuracies. 

Penn GSE News
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January 18, 2019

Award-winner Ryan Baker looks to the future in online learning

Ryan Baker received the 2018 Educational Research Award from the Council of Scientific Society Presidents.

Teaching & Learning
Education Innovation & Entrepreneurship
Peter Eckel, Penn GSE
In the Media
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January 18, 2019
, University World News

Transforming governance through independent boards

Peter Eckel writes about the challenges facing newly created university boards of trustees in countries like Kazakhstan, Malaysia, and India, where independent board governance is an emerging practice.

Abby Reisman, Penn GSE
Awards & Honors
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January 16, 2019

Abby Reisman

Abby Reisman has received a $49,942 grant from the Spencer Foundation for the project "Using Online Professional Development Modules to Support Practice-Based Coaching for Document-Based History Instruction: A Design Experiment." The grant will support a two-year design-based study in which Dr. Reisman is working with a...

Pam Grossman, Penn GSE
Penn GSE News
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January 14, 2019

Penn GSE Receives $8.6 M in 2018 to Prepare Teachers of the Future

Penn GSE has received $8.6 M in 2018 to support its teacher education programs, including grants for student scholarships and the development of innovative coursework and fieldwork for the School’s Urban Teacher Apprenticeship Program (UTAP).

Teaching & Learning
Faces of Philanthropy
Penn GSE News
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January 14, 2019

Penn GSE scholars on Education Week's list of influencers in education

Seven Penn GSE educators and a Penn professor with a secondary appointment at Penn GSE are featured.

Professor Matthew Steinberg
Penn GSE News
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January 9, 2019

Where do Philadelphia principals go when they leave schools?

New research from Penn GSE’s Matthew Steinberg shows Philadelphia principals aren’t leaving for the suburbs.

Education Policy & Analysis
Penn GSE News
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January 8, 2019
A team of entrepreneurs works on a new idea.

Tenth annual Education Business Plan Competition now accepting entries

The Milken-Penn GSE Education Business Plan Competition will offer a new level of support for entrepreneurs.

Education Innovation & Entrepreneurship
Laura W. Perna, Penn GSE
In the Media
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January 7, 2019
, The Hechinger Report

How Educational Opportunity Programs graduate first-generation college students

Laura Perna is quoted on the role of summer study programs in preparing first-generation students to succeed in college.

H. Gerald Campano, Penn GSE
Awards & Honors
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January 7, 2019

Gerald Campano

Gerald Campano, with María Paula Ghiso of Teachers College, Columbia University and Bethany Welch of the  Aquinas Center, has received the 2018 David H. Russell Award for Distinguished Research in the Teaching of English from the National Council of Teachers of English for the book, "Partnering with Immigrant...

Laura W. Perna, Penn GSE
Penn GSE News
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December 13, 2018

Penn GSE Features Higher Education Leaders at Homecoming

Penn GSE highlighted leaders from across higher education at a panel discussion for alumni and friends during Penn’s Homecoming Weekend.

Higher Education
Alumni
Penn GSE News
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December 13, 2018

The Best Books of 2018 for Young Readers

Penn GSE's Ebony Elizabeth Thomas says 2018 saw a leap in realistic portrayals of diverse characters in books aimed at early independent readers.

Teaching & Learning
Sigal Ben-Porath, Penn GSE
In the Media
 | 
December 11, 2018
, Inside Higher Ed

Against endorsing the Chicago principles

Sigal Ben-Porath writes about the shortcomings of the Chicago principles, which many higher education institutions endorse as a framework for responding to challenges to free speech on campus.

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...

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