Awards & Honors
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July 9, 2018

Matthew Hartley and Alan Ruby, with Penn GSE’s Alliance for Higher Education and Democracy, have received a $131,000 grant from the Qatar Foundation to support their research examining conceptions of institutional excellence at colleges and universities. The work will...

Marybeth Gasman, Penn GSE
Awards & Honors
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March 22, 2018

Marybeth Gasman has won the Carlos J. Vallejo Memorial Award for Lifetime Scholarship from AERA’s Multicultural/Multiethnic Education SIG

 

Susan A. Yoon, Penn GSE
Awards & Honors
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March 20, 2018

Susan Yoon has been honored by the American Educational Research Association and the American Educational Research Journal as an Outstanding Reviewer.

 

Awards & Honors
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February 28, 2018

Ryan Fink was awarded $114,508 by Research For Action for a collaborative project with the Philadelphia Education Research Consortium (PERC), “Scan of Early Literacy Practices in Philadelphia’s Charter Schools.” This is a sub-award from a grant PERC received from the William Penn Foundation. The project plans to...

John W. Fantuzzo, Penn GSE
Awards & Honors
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February 14, 2018

John Fantuzzo, Katie Barghaus, and the team at the Penn Child Research Center have been awarded a grant from the William Penn Foundation for $268,400. The grant titled “Building an evidence-based, sustainable, family-teacher engagement intervention to support kindergartners' classroom engagement competencies," aims to...

Sharon Wolf, Penn GSE
Awards & Honors
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February 7, 2018

Sharon Wolf was recently selected as one of the 11 global fellows of the 2018•2020 Jacobs Foundation Research Fellowship Program aimed at improving the learning, development, and living conditions of children and youth. Dr. Wolf will spend her fellowship period advancing scientific knowledge and forming new insights...

Ryan S. Baker, Penn GSE
Awards & Honors
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January 24, 2018

Ryan Baker received a $430,000 award from the University of Florida (Institute of Education Sciences) for the project “Exploring Adaptive Cognitive and Affective Learning Support for Next Generation STEM Learning Games.” The purpose of this project is to research how to design educational games that better support...

Ryan S. Baker, Penn GSE
Awards & Honors
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January 24, 2018

Ryan Baker was awarded a $470,000 grant from American Institute for Research (Institute of Education Sciences) for the project “Identifying Malleable Factors in Blended Learning Environments Using Automated Detectors of Engagement.” The project aims to use data mining and machine learning methods to explore the...

Janine Remillard, Penn GSE
Awards & Honors
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January 23, 2018

Janine Remillard and her collaborators from Sweden, Flanders (Belgium), the U.S., and Finland, received an award of $970,000 by Swedish Research Council (led by Malardalen University) for the project “Teachers’ Use of Mathematics Curriculum Resources in the 21st Century: A Cross-Cultural Project.” The study...

Ameena Ghaffar-Kucher, Penn GSE
Awards & Honors
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January 22, 2018

Ameena Ghaffar-Kucher and Thea Abu el-Haj (Penn GSE Alum) received an award of $42,945 from the Spencer Foundation for the project, “Unequal Citizens: Documenting the Civic Lives of American Muslim Immigrant Youth.” This national study focuses on the ways in which young people from diverse Muslim immigrant communities...

Sarah Schneider Kavanagh, Penn GSE
Awards & Honors
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January 19, 2018

Sarah Schneider Kavanagh and a cross-institutional team of researchers have recently been awarded a $2.5 million grant from the James S. McDonnell Foundation to conduct a research study investigating how teachers learn to support disciplinary argumentation when facilitating classroom discussions. Focusing on...

Sharon Wolf, Penn GSE
Awards & Honors
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January 19, 2018

Sharon Wolf recently received the “Early Career Research Fellowship” of $167,907 from Jacobs Foundation. During this fellowship, Wolf will work on developing, evaluating, and scaling up early childhood development policies in Ghana and Cote d'Ivoire.  By contributing to the growing body of evidence from which...

Jonathan A. Supovitz, Penn GSE
Awards & Honors
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January 18, 2018

Jonathan Supovitz has received an award of $450,000 from Nellie Mae Educational Foundation for the project, “The Study of Teacher Leadership in the United States”. Led by three leading researchers in the field of educational leadership, the project first scans the teacher leadership program environment in the U.S. and...

Wendy Chan, Penn GSE
Awards & Honors
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January 17, 2018

Wendy Chan’s project, "Assessing the Role of Covariates and Matching in Improving Bounds for Generalization and in Understanding Generalizations Over Time," was recently awarded $36,033.50 from the Spencer Foundation. The goal of this project is two-fold. First, the project investigates the impact of covariates and...

Sharon Wolf, Penn GSE
Awards & Honors
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September 19, 2017

Sharon Wolf was awarded approximately $420,000 by the British Academy for a longitudinal follow-up of children from project “Assessing Sustained Impacts of the Quality Preschool for Ghana Teacher Training Intervention on Children’s Early Primary Grade Outcomes.” This project will follow the children from the original...

Yasmin B. Kafai, Penn GSE
Awards & Honors
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September 19, 2017

Yasmin Kafai and her project partner Michael Eisenberg from University of Colorado-Boulder received a $1.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation for their project “Debugging by Design: Developing a Tool Set for Debugging with Electronic Textiles to Promote Computational and Engineering Thinking in High...

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