July 30, 2020
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Nkemka Anyiwo, a postdoctoral fellow at Penn GSE’s Racial Empowerment Collaborative

Anyiwo: Black should be capitalized in textbooks, and educators should explain why

Nkemka Anyiwo, a postdoctoral fellow at Penn GSE’s Racial Empowerment Collaborative, recently told CNN the longtime use of lowercasing the word can ‘operate as an implicit form of racial messaging.’

  • Race, Equity & Inclusion
July 16, 2020
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Penn GSE's Howard Stevenson

‘You’re always communicating about race, whether you talk about it or not.’

Howard Stevenson is an expert on racial literacy. Here’s what people have asked him this summer.

  • Race, Equity & Inclusion
  • Special Topic: COVID-19
June 8, 2020
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Marsha Richardson, right, leads a discussion at Penn GSE in 2019.

‘Educators are focusing on the student’s behavior, as opposed to the underlying potential causes of the behavior’

Leading an EDTECH WEEK Masterclass, Marsha Richardson said educators need to take care of their own wellness needs, as well as those of their students.

  • Race, Equity & Inclusion
  • Counseling & Psychology
  • Special Topic: COVID-19
May 21, 2020
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Howard Stevenson

‘To think about race outside of health now seems almost ridiculous’

Howard Stevenson on what COVID-19 has revealed about race and health.

  • Race, Equity & Inclusion
  • Special Topic: COVID-19
May 1, 2020
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A graphic featuring the books on Rabani Garg's list.

The best books about Ramadan for children

Penn GSE doctoral student Rabani Garg has created a list that showcases ‘the diversity of Muslim life across the world’.

  • Race, Equity & Inclusion
  • Language, Literacy & Culture
December 17, 2019
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Ebony Bridwell-Mitchell delivers a lecture.

Bridwell-Mitchell opens 12th Visiting Scholars of Color Lecture Series

The Harvard GSE associate professor gave an overview of upcoming work examining the relationship between school partnerships and school outcomes.

  • Race, Equity & Inclusion
December 5, 2019
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Teacher Brendon Jobs in the classroom with two high-school aged students.

Taking an antiracist stance in the classroom

Penn GSE instructor Brendon Jobs writes in the Philadelphia Inquirer about the obligations for antiracist educators.

  • Race, Equity & Inclusion
  • Teaching & Learning
November 12, 2019
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Good Morning America features ECS student Sanah Jivani’s story of overcoming bullying and finding herself

Jivani founded the Love Your Natural Self Foundation to help people love, accept, and celebrate who they are.

 

  • Race, Equity & Inclusion
  • Leadership
October 1, 2019
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In telling the story of school segregation, Nikole Hannah-Jones shows how choices increase or decrease integration

Hannah-Jones, the investigative reporter who led the New York Times Magazine’s 1619 Project, delivered the Steven S. Goldberg and Jolley Bruce Christman Lecture in Education Law.

 

  • Race, Equity & Inclusion
  • Education Policy & Analysis
September 25, 2019
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Loan forgiveness is just one way to tackle student debt

Student loan forgiveness was a hot topic in the Democratic presidential primary. Penn GSE Postdoctoral Scholar Jalil Mustaffa Bishop suggests that in addition to loan forgiveness, labor reform could lead to decreased student debt for African American students.

 

  • Race, Equity & Inclusion
  • Higher Education

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