Yasmin Kafai, with Co-Principal Investigators Orkan Telhan of PennDesign and Karen Hogan of Biorealize, has received a $99,855 grant from the National Science Foundation. The grant will support the project "Learn.design.compute with bio: A Workshop for Connecting Computational Thinking with Synthetic Biology Applications in K-16 Education."
Awards & Honors
Laura Perna has received a subcontract from the Pell Institute, funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The one-year, $250,000 grant — $60,000 of which is to Penn GSE — will support the production of the annual Indicators of Higher Education Equity report.
(Posted 11/2/2018)
Nancy Hornberger has been awarded an honorary doctorate by Umeå University in Sweden. Since 2012, Dr. Hornberger has served as Visiting Professor to Umeå University's Department of Language Studies, consulting and collaborating on the development of Sámi language teaching, teacher education, and research in support of Sámi Indigenous language revitalization.
(Posted 10/16/2018)
Krystal Strong
Krystal Strong has received a $50,000 grant from the Spencer Foundation to support the next 14 months of the project "Education and Political Change: Mapping Contemporary School Protests in Africa." Dr. Strong's research team will complete the first comprehensive, cross-national database of the incidence and causes of school-based protests in Africa since 2000, and will use interactive mapping technology to make this data publicly accessible to global researchers and practitioners.
(Posted 9/21/2018)
Janine Remillard and Caroline Ebby have received a $50,000 grant from the Spencer Foundation for the project "Transitions to the First Year of Teaching in Urban Schools: Learning to Enact Dialogic Instruction in Mathematics."
(Posted 9/19/2018)
Caroline Ebby and Caroline Watts have received $2,993,280 from the National Science Foundation for their four-year project "Building Sustainable Networked Instructional Leadership in Elementary Mathematics through a University Partnership with a Large Urban District."
(Posted 9/19/2018)
Susan Yoon, with Blanca Himes and Matthew Breitenstein, both of Penn Medicine, has received a grant of $1,036,108 from the National Science Foundation for the project "Professional Development Supports for Teaching Bioinformatics through Mobile Learning." The project aims to help create an engaged population of informatics-informed students who are capable of critically analyzing information and able to solve local problems related to their health and well-being.
(Posted 9/4/2018)
Laura Perna, with project partners Robin LaSota of Development Services Group and Joshua R. Polanin of the American Institutes for Research, has received a $600,000 grant from the Institute of Education Sciences. Their two year project, “The Effects of College Aid Programs: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis” aims to estimate the relationships between different types of financial aid programs and student progress through postsecondary education.
(Posted 9/4/2018)
Abby Reisman has received a $19,993 grant from the Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources Program for the project “The Life of African Americans in 19th Century Philadelphia: Using Library of Congress Resources to Uncover Hidden History.” The project will establish a professional development series to support 10th grade history teachers in Philadelphia in using the Library of Congress’ collection to design lessons in this topic area.
(Posted 9/4/2018)
Manuel S. González Canché has received a $70,000 grant from the National Academy of Education for his project “Overcoming the Geography of Disadvantage: A Spillovers Framework to Identify Structural Means to Enhance Community College Students’ Educational Outcomes Despite Their Location.”
(Posted 9/4/2018)