February 15, 2018
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New PBS documentary tells the story of HBCUs

Penn GSE Marybeth Gasman is a source for Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges and Universities, a groundbreaking film premiering Feb. 19.

 

  • Race, Equity & Inclusion
  • Higher Education
February 5, 2018
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Craig Steven Wilder visits Penn GSE to discuss why colleges are still reluctant to acknowledge their ties to slavery

The MIT historian was Penn GSE's first 2018 Visiting Scholar of Color.

 

  • Race, Equity & Inclusion
  • Higher Education
January 11, 2018
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Penn GSE announces 10th Visiting Scholars of Color lecture series

The series kicks off January 31 with author and MIT professor Craig Steven Wilder. 

 

  • Race, Equity & Inclusion
  • News from Penn GSE
November 29, 2017
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A conversation with Howard Stevenson

In a Q&A for the Penn Current, Stevenson discusses connections between psychology and theology, holding therapy sessions on a basketball court, and helping schools respond to racist incidents. 

 

  • Race, Equity & Inclusion
November 3, 2017
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Ta-Nehisi Coates discusses racism, writing

The writer was at Penn for the Honorable A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr. Memorial Lecture, co-sponsored by Penn GSE.

 

  • Race, Equity & Inclusion
October 14, 2017
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Advancing Historically Black Colleges and Universities

As president of Huston-Tillotson University, Colette Pierce Burnette, GRD’15, strives to improve access and build community.

  • Race, Equity & Inclusion
  • Alumni
October 2, 2017
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Former NAACP president Cornell Brooks and Provost Wendell Pritchett discuss the future of charter schools

Cornell Brooks, who led the NAACP, gave the inaugural Steven S. Goldberg and Jolley Bruce Christman Lecture in Education Law.

 

  • Race, Equity & Inclusion
  • Education Policy & Analysis
September 6, 2017
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University of Pennsylvania Names Calvin Bland Fellows

The Penn Futures Project has named three Calvin Bland Faculty Fellows to collaborate on research for boys and young men of color. Supported by a $2 million endowment from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Fellows were selected from the faculty at Penn’s Schools of Nursing , Graduate School of Education, and Social Policy & Practice.

 

  • Philadelphia Impact
  • Race, Equity & Inclusion
August 22, 2017
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Stevenson discusses what’s next after Charlottesville

Appearing on WHYY’s Radio Times, Howard Stevenson talked about the motivations for hate, and how it can be confronted.

 

  • Race, Equity & Inclusion
August 11, 2017
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Flores: Segregation, not language background, likely explains proficiency gap for Spanish-speaking English learners

Nelson Flores told WHYY’s Newsworks there is more to English-proficiency test scores than cultural heritage. 

 

  • Race, Equity & Inclusion
  • Language, Literacy & Culture

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