March 22, 2024
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Sade Bonilla gives her take on the evolution of career education

Bonilla highlights the shift from vocational training to career technical education, emphasizing its role in reducing dropout rates and promoting equitable learning opportunities.

  • Race, Equity & Inclusion
  • Education Policy & Analysis
March 7, 2024
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Sigal Ben-Porath poses warmly in a professional portrait, with a friendly smile, curly brown hair, and dressed in a blue top with white accents.

Sigal Ben-Porath shares insights for navigating free speech on campus

Sigal Ben-Porath recommends clear communication and contextually relevant discussions as strategies for universities to navigate the complexities of free speech on campuses.

  • Race, Equity & Inclusion
  • Higher Education
  • Leadership
February 19, 2024
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Felix Rosado, the program coordinator for Healing Futures with the Youth Art & Self-empowerment Project (YASP) and an adjunct professor at Chestnut Hill College, delivers a keynote to an audience of high school students in front of a projector screen with his headshot and name on it in a lecture hall.

Penn GSE supports Youth United Against Incarceration Symposium

The Office of School and Community Engagement and HEARD co-sponsored the symposium, uniting nearly 175 students in a collaborative effort with the Workshop School to critically address and devise strategies against the systemic issue of mass incarceration.

  • Philadelphia Impact
  • Race, Equity & Inclusion
February 16, 2024
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Nimet Eren, dressed in red attire, stands in her office surrounded by a collection of artifacts that reflect her journey as an educator.

Homeroom: The story behind Nimet Eren’s artifacts at Kensington Health

Nimet Eren, a Penn GSE graduate and principal of Kensington Health Sciences Academy, blends innovative education with a community focus.

  • Race, Equity & Inclusion
  • Teaching & Learning
  • Alumni
February 9, 2024
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Chaz Howard stands with the recipients of the 2023 Projects for Progress awards.

Ariane Thomas receives 2023 Projects for Progress Award

The Professional Counseling Program director’s Positioned for Success project was recognized for academically supporting and mentoring Philadelphia students affected by gun violence and parental incarceration.

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  • Race, Equity & Inclusion
February 2, 2024
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Amid tensions, Penn GSE free speech scholar promotes inclusion and diversity of ideas in “Nature Human Behaviour”

MRMJJ Presidential Professor Sigal Ben-Porath says faculty must take the lead in fostering constructive dialogue across differences and creating safe environments for open discussion.

  • Race, Equity & Inclusion
  • Education Policy & Analysis
  • Higher Education
January 22, 2024
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Visiting Scholar Speaker Series dates announced for 2024

This is the first time the Visiting Scholars Speaker Series has tied into the “One Book” program, where faculty and students read and explore a book as a community.

  • Race, Equity & Inclusion
  • Leadership
  • Teaching & Learning
December 21, 2023
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A large multicultural group of 27 youth, parents, and other adults pose together in a semicircle, smiling at the camera in a classroom.

Penn GSE researchers team up with Philly community to make a difference through CARE Initiative

The community-based research partnership aims to effect change through community members’ own research into the educational issues they face.

  • Philadelphia Impact
  • Race, Equity & Inclusion
  • Education Innovation & Entrepreneurship
  • Language, Literacy & Culture
  • Teaching & Learning
December 19, 2023
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Penn GSE 2023 Stories, clockwise from top left: Dean Katharine O. Strunk; Dr. James Lester delivers the keynote at the McGraw Center for Educational Leadership opening event; Suzanne McGraw is in the audience at an event, listening; Cover art for the second episode of the Educator's Playbook Podcast

Our top stories of 2023

Look back with us at some of the stories that defined 2023 for our community.

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  • Global Initiatives
  • Race, Equity & Inclusion
  • Education Innovation & Entrepreneurship
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  • Leadership
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  • News from Penn GSE
December 7, 2023
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Increasing the visibility of Southeast Asian students: A discussion with Linda Pheng

Pheng recently received the 2023 AESA Taylor & Francis Educational Studies Award for the Best Paper of the Year.

  • Race, Equity & Inclusion
  • Education Policy & Analysis
  • Higher Education

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