Sharon Ravitch has received a grant from ERFIP (Empowering Families for Innovative Philanthropy), which is funded by the Edmond de Rothschild Foundation in Geneva. Dr. Ravitch will work with Dr. Reima Shakeir, who will serve as a post-doctoral fellow for 2019-2020, on the development of case studies of eight family philanthropies as a way to assess this model of frontier philanthropies as a development gap- filler within and across the Global South.
Awards & Honors
Wendy Chan was awarded a grant from the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia for $21,456 for the project “Reducing Disparities in Behavioral Health Treatment for Children in Primary Care.” This study assesses the impact of a behavioral therapy program on patient-centered outcomes for children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). The study will focus primarily on low income households.
(Posted 8/7/2019)
Amy Stornaiuolo received a 2019 Emerald Literati Award, in the category of English Teaching: Practice and Critique, for her article with T. Philip Nichols and Veena Vasudevan, “Building spaces for literacy in school: mapping the emergence of a literacy makerspace.”
(Posted 8/7/2019)
Ryan Baker and colleagues at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Worcester Polytechnic Institute received an award from the National Science Foundation for $219,000 to study how to develop artificially intelligent learning systems that ask teachers for advice on how to interact with students. Rather than asking the teacher for broad rules which can be hard to articulate, the system will occasionally ask the teacher what to do in specific real situations and learn the teacher's preferences.
(Posted 8/7/2019)
Ryan Baker and colleagues at the University of Wisconsin and Harvard University were awarded approximately $447,000 by the National Science Foundation to develop a new game that teaches about aquatic ecosystems and scientific inquiry skills. The game will observe student gameplay and learn how to better sequence content, and then use this information to improve its own educational effectiveness.
(Posted 8/7/2019)
Manuel S. González Canché has received a grant award from the AccessLex Institute for the project “The Effect of the Uniform Bar Examination on Diversity, Affordability, and Employment Prospects." The purpose of the study is to evaluate whether the adoption of Uniform Bar Examination (UBE) has positively influenced increased diversity in law school enrollment and completion, bar passage rates, tuition costs, employment mobility, and overall employment prospects.
(Posted 8/7/2019)
Sharon Wolf has received an award from the Penn Global Engagement fund for her project "Assessing executive functioning in Ghanaian school children." The study will look at how executive function competencies (like working memory, goal setting, and organization) develop and are linked to school success in Ghana.
(Posted 8/7/2019)
Michael Nakkula received a $145,000 grant from The Future Project to lead a study of an innovative national project on developmental life coaching to promote "possibility thinking" in urban high schools. The initiative helps fill the gap in counseling and related life-planning supports in urban schools across the country. The study focuses on initiatives in Detroit, Washington, D.C., Newark, and New Haven.
(Posted 8/7/2019)
Matthew Hartley, Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, was nominated by Nazarbayev University’s graduate school of education for a national award in Kazakhstan. The award was presented at a meeting in Cambridge, England by Nazarbayev University GSE’s dean Aida Sagintayeva, “for contributions to the development of research (science) for the Republic of Kazakhstan” based on NU’s and Penn GSE’s joint research in education.
(Posted 5/30/2019)
Laura Perna, James S. Riepe Professor in the division of Higher Education, was appointed to serve as part of a new Gates Foundation commission, the Commission on the Value of Postsecondary Education. This new national research group will “examine what we are learning about the value of postsecondary education and offer recommendations about how to define and measure that value.”
(Posted 5/30/2019)