March 7, 2019
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Ethnography in Education Research Forum presents its inaugural book award

Gabrielle Oliveira’s nuanced and complex look at Mexican families, Motherhood Across Borders: Immigrants and Their Children in Mexico and New York, was awarded the first Ethnography in Education Book Award.

 

  • Global Initiatives
  • Race, Equity & Inclusion
October 18, 2018
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Educating Beyond Boundaries: Penn GSE Alumni Pursue Cross-Disciplinary Careers

Four Penn GSE alumni share their stories of impactful careers that pair education with psychology, corporate leadership, business and technology, and international development.

  • Global Initiatives
  • Education Innovation & Entrepreneurship
  • Alumni
October 3, 2018
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Ten Years of Penn GSE Fieldwork in Kazakhstan

In Penn GSE’s first Faculty Global Seminar, Alan Ruby described how the school’s collaboration with leaders in Kazakhstan has helped launch a university.

 

  • Global Initiatives
September 12, 2018
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Penn GSE and Aditya Birla Education Academy partner to train teachers in India in online and blended learning

This month in Mumbai, the first cohort of Indian teachers will begin the Virtual Online Learning and Teaching Certificate Program, tailored to their needs.

 

  • Global Initiatives
  • Education Innovation & Entrepreneurship
May 31, 2018
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Bringing Education to Nations of Students

As a developer of international social-impact programs, Christopher Ashford, GR’00, works to improve the lives of children.

  • Global Initiatives
  • Alumni
May 30, 2018
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NPR showcases Sharon Wolf's work to transform Ghana’s preschools

In Ghana’s capital city of Accra, roughly 80 percent of children are enrolled in preschool by age three – but tests show that traditional call-and-response teaching, rote memorization, and corporal punishment do not lead to much learning.

 

  • Global Initiatives
  • Counseling & Psychology
March 23, 2018
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Wagner: To succeed as Secretary, Pompeo must strategically use foreign aid

Writing in The Hill, Dan Wagner argues for improving how the U.S. spends foreign aid money on education.

  • Global Initiatives
  • Education Policy & Analysis
March 14, 2018
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Sharon Wolf receives 3-year Jacobs Fellowship to extend early childhood research in rural Ghana and Ivory Coast

Wolf is one of 11 Jacobs Fellows chosen from a pool of over 400 applicants.

 

  • Global Initiatives
November 20, 2017
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Wagner: The US needs UNESCO

Dan Wagner, Penn GSE professor and Special Advisor to UNESCO’s Director-General, argues the U.S. decision to withdraw from UNESCO is shortsighted. 

 

  • Global Initiatives
September 7, 2017
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Dan Wagner named Special Advisor to Director-General of UNESCO

Throughout his career, Wagner has focused on problems of literacy in the developing world through applied research and advising international agencies, governments, and non-profits. 

 

  • Global Initiatives

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