Penn GSE News
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May 13, 2025
Janice Rafferty Grady  smiles at the camera wearing a black turtleneck

The newest member of the dean’s Senior Leadership Team, Grady joined Penn GSE from the Columbia University’s School of Nursing.

Karen Weaver, Penn GSE
Penn GSE News
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May 12, 2025

Weaver examines the broad implications of the evolving role of college athletics and the coming impacts to institutions and students.

Penn GSE News
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May 8, 2025
A headshot portrait of Lara wearing a herringbone blazer and smiling against a neutral background.

The newly named office in Catalyst @ Penn GSE merges the expertise and expands the impact of two offices: the Penn Literacy Network and the Center for Professional Learning.

Penn GSE News
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May 7, 2025
Collage of 2025 Penn GSE Award recipients. Top row (L–R): Damani White-Lewis, A. Brooks Bowden, Abby Reisman, Jenny Zapf. Middle row: Rachel Dozier, John Gamba, Peter Montesino. Bottom row: Dandan Wu, Mayowa Fageyinbo, Meruyert Bizhanova.

From mentoring and instruction to leadership and creativity, this year’s awardees represent the values that define Penn GSE.

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May 6, 2025
Ericka smiles, leaning up against the windows of Penn GSE on a sunny spring afternoon.

This award will support the assistant professor in Penn GSE’s Policy, Organizations, and Leadership division in a five-year research plan on institutional responses to truancy.

Penn GSE News
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May 2, 2025
Rand Quinn sits at a table with his arms crossed engaged in discussion with two students

In a San Francisco public radio story, Quinn discusses how desegregation-era policies triggered lasting enrollment shifts and funding challenges in San Francisco’s public schools.

Penn GSE News
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May 2, 2025
Rameen Iftikhar

Rameen Iftikhar, who completed a master’s degree in international education development in January, will pursue a Ph.D. in education at University of Cambridge.

Penn GSE News
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May 1, 2025
Dr. Manuel González Canché leads a pre-conference workshop on machine-driven text classification and analysis on April 22.

From first-time presenters to seasoned scholars, the Penn GSE community showed up big at AERA 2025 with fresh ideas and powerful conversations.

Penn GSE News
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April 29, 2025
Dr. Lester gives a lecture in front of a packed crowd in front of a screen with an image of  a woman and a robot sharing a laptop and the words "AI in Education" written above it.

The latest issue of Social Innovations Journal is an outgrowth of the center for global education innovation’s expertise and mission, capitalizing on their deep network of researchers, practitioners, entrepreneurs, and policy leaders.

Penn GSE News
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April 23, 2025
10 Penn students pose for a photo, four seated and six standing behind them, in front of a Wharton AI + Analytics background

Two teams of education master’s students were finalists in the co-curricular program at the business school, which brought together students from across the University with varying levels of experience in artificial intelligence to solve real-world problems in just one week.

Penn GSE News
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April 21, 2025
10 people in professional dress pose together in a semicircle around a display of academic posters.

Penn GSE students explored policy, shared research, and burnished their professional development at the recent Comparative and International Education Society conference in Chicago.

Penn GSE News
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April 18, 2025
Angela smiles, wearing a black shirt

The Rosa Lee and Egbert Chang Professor at the University of Pennsylvania and 2013 MacArthur Fellow will address the graduates on May 17 in the Palestra.

Penn GSE News
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April 18, 2025
Damani White-Lewis

The Penn GSE assistant professor provides actionable advice for institutions striving for a more representative professoriate in Inside Higher Ed.

Penn GSE News
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April 15, 2025
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Penn GSE alumni from across the academic spectrum have advised politicians, worked in the White House and the statehouse, and spurred change in our nation’s schools and universities thanks to their evidence-backed expertise in education policy.

Penn GSE News
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April 14, 2025
Street view of the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education (Penn GSE) building

This spring, those honors include three Spencer Foundation grants, the Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching, and more.

Penn GSE News
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April 9, 2025
Representatives Bryan Cutler and Peter Schweyer sit at a table in front of a white board and face each other, laughing.

Pennsylvania House of Representatives’ Education Committee Chairmen Bryan Cutler and Peter Schweyer discussed how PA lawmakers plan to work together on public school budgets, special education funding, school choice, the PA State Board of Higher Education, and more.

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