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Penn GSE Faculty Vivian L. Gadsden

William T. Carter Professor of Child Development and Education

  • Literacy and at-risk youth
  • Fathers and families
  • Intergenerational learning
  • Parental engagement
Penn GSE Faculty L. Michael Golden

Executive Director, Catalyst @ Penn GSE

  • Education innovation and entrepreneurship
  • Educational technology
  • Personalized, blended, problem-based learning
  • Policy and systems change
  • Convergence of education, technology, and business
  • Research to practice implementation
  • Career connected learning
Penn GSE Faculty Janine Remillard

Professor

  • Mathematics education
  • Teachers' use of mathematics curriculum materials
  • Teaching and teacher education
  • Parental engagement
  • Urban education
Penn GSE Faculty Jenny Zapf

Senior Fellow

  • Entrepreneurship in Education
  • Evaluation for Innovation
  • Adaptive Rapid-Cycle Research Design
  • Non-Profit Management
  • University-Community Partnerships
Penn GSE Faculty Ericka S. Weathers

Assistant Professor

  • K-12 education policy
  • School segregation
  • Truancy
  • Special education
  • K-12 school finance
Penn GSE Faculty Christopher Pupik Dean

Senior Fellow

  • Teacher education
  • Teacher professional development
  • Citizenship education
  • Ethical issues in education
  • Philosophy of education
Penn GSE Faculty Jonathan Zimmerman

Judy and Howard Berkowitz Professor in Education

  • History/Politics of education
  • “Culture Wars” in American and global contexts
  • Sex, sexuality, and schools
  • Campus protests
  • College teaching
  • Education and historical memory
  • History of Medicine
Penn GSE Faculty Tina L. Fletcher

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

  • Black teachers
  • Male teachers of color
  • School-to-prison pipeline
  • Teacher licensure exams
  • Teacher quality
Penn GSE Faculty John W. Fantuzzo

Albert M. Greenfield Emeritus Professor of Human Relations

  • Early childhood education, Head Start
  • Learning-to-Learn competencies that foster classroom engagement
  • Use of Integrated Data Systems for social policy research
  • Early childhood risk including child maltreatment, family violence, homelessness
Penn GSE Faculty Alan R. Ruby

Senior Fellow

  • Education reform at all levels of the education system
  • Taking education reform and innovation to scale
  • Educational programs and finance strategies to support less advantaged groups
  • Globalization, international student mobility, and international education
Penn GSE Faculty John L. Puckett

Professor Emeritus of Education

  • Civic education and community schooling
  • University-community relations
  • The American research university
  • The American high school
  • History of American education
Penn GSE Faculty Sade Bonilla

Assistant Professor

  • Economics of education
  • Urban education policy
  • Policy evaluation
  • Career and technical education
  • Ethnic studies
  • High school to college transitions
  • Quasi-experimental methods

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