Penn GSE News Archive
What success looks like for a student athlete
This feature cites Shaun Harper's study on the black male graduation gap for college student-athletes.
Should Everyone Go to College?
Shaun Harper comments on some unintended consequences of pushing all students toward college.
As college prices soar, poorest students fall further behind
New reports from IRHE and Penn AHEAD are cited in this article on the cost of college.
Maryland colleges rank among the most affordable in the country, but that’s changing
In response to her new study, Joni Finney comments on college affordability in Maryland and Virginia.
Barack Obama free community college plan backed by $100m funding
Laura Perna says the President's plan signals that "the jobs being created in the US economy now largely require some college education. Not necessarily a degree from a four-year institution. But definitely more than a high school diploma."
Cries about national teacher shortages might be overblown
According to Richard Ingersoll, shortages are more about the failure to retain veteran teachers.
The Growing College-Degree Wealth Gap
Resource constraints and structural failures often limit the choices of students from lower-income families to the local or online, non-selective or for-profit postsecondary educational institutions, says Laura Perna.
How should schools handle violence
In this radio program, Richard Ingersoll comments on teachers and school violence.
The richest 25% of American families account for more than half of all college graduates
In 2014, just 10% of dependent family members who said they received a bachelor’s degree by the time they were 24 years old came from families in the lowest income quartile, according to a study by the Pell Institute for the Study of Opportunity in Higher Education in Washington, D.C. and PennAHEAD.