March 15, 2024
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Penn GSE Associate Professor Brooks Bowden leaning against a chalkboard

Bowden’s research demonstrates how lenient grading policies in North Carolina high schools lead to reduced student effort and wider academic gaps, questioning current educational reforms.

  • Education Policy & Analysis
  • Teaching & Learning
February 23, 2024
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The program at Penn GSE stands out in providing direct feedback from trained observers.

  • Counseling & Psychology
  • Higher Education
  • Teaching & Learning
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.

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 6, 2024
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Richard Ingersoll

Ingersoll provides critical insights into the evolving nature of teacher preparation across the U.S. in Education Week.

  • Education Policy & Analysis
  • Teaching & Learning
January 26, 2024
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A smartphone is held in the center of the image with the ChatGPT website open on its browser. The phone is above a computer keyboard. You can see that the person has input “explain nuclear fusion in simple terms” as their prompt and the AI is generating an answer in return, illustrating how the program works for end-users.

Ross Aikins found students are finding new ways to use the tools, and AI is especially helpful for international students.

  • Education Innovation & Entrepreneurship
  • Higher Education
  • Teaching & Learning
January 22, 2024
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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
January 12, 2024
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A group of more than 30 teacher education researchers gathered around large round tables in a conference room listen to one of the attendees speaking into a microphone while the presenters stand at the front.

With national data showing an extreme teacher shortage and difficulties hiring qualified candidates, the December gathering focused on actionable practices to prepare people to enter the teaching profession and succeed.

  • Teaching & Learning
January 9, 2024
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School administrators across the country are facing political challenges they might not have expected when they entered education. Sigal Ben-Porath, MRMJJ Presidential Professor, recently offered advice in School Administrator magazine for how superintendents and other leaders can navigate these pressures.

  • Leadership
  • Teaching & Learning
January 5, 2024
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An illustration with a red-and-white circle target on the left. A bunch of squiggly lines, in a variety of colors, begin at the right and combine in the center to form one strong single line that continues into the bullseye of the target.

A new year means a new version of the RHSU Edu-Scholar Public Influence Rankings, with the 2024 edition announced yesterday by Education Week. Nine researchers from the University of Pennsylvania made the annual 200-member list, which was created by Rick Hess of the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) to gauge the public impact of ed scholars’ contributions.

  • Education Policy & Analysis
  • Higher Education
  • 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.

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

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