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Penn GSE Faculty Anne Pomerantz

Professor of Practice

  • Language teaching
  • Language teacher education
  • Humor and language play in multilingual contexts
  • Intercultural communication
  • Discourse analysis
Penn GSE Faculty Paul Austin McDermott

Professor

  • Measurement and item response theory
  • Test construction
  • Factor analysis and scale development
  • Multilevel and longitudinal modeling
  • Classification accuracy
  • Latent profile and growth mixture modeling
Penn GSE Faculty Diane E. Eynon

Senior Fellow

  • Internationalization of higher education
  • Higher education in developing countries and economies
  • Dynamics of higher education and development
  • Policies and practices related to gender equity
Penn GSE Faculty Yuko Goto Butler

Professor

  • Language assessment
  • Cross-linguistic and cross-cultural learning and teaching
  • Second language acquisition among young learners
  • Bilingualism and biliteracy
Penn GSE Faculty Robert F. Boruch

University Trustee Chair Professor of Education and Statistics

  • Evaluation of effects of educational and social interventions
  • Evaluation in developing countries
  • Randomized controlled trials
  • Ethics in social research
  • Systematic reviews of evidence and standards of evidence
Penn GSE Faculty Betsy R. Rymes

Professor

  • Citizen Sociolinguistics
  • Language socialization
  • Multilingualism and TESOL
  • Youth culture, mass media, and schooling
Penn GSE Faculty Roberto G. Gonzales

Richard Perry University Professor

  • Immigrant incorporation
  • Immigrants and education
  • Immigration policy
  • Urban education
  • Transition to adulthood
  • Sociology of education
Penn GSE Faculty Raquel M. Arredondo

Assistant Dean of Climate and Community

Penn GSE Faculty Sharon M. Ravitch

Professor of Practice

  • Adaptive leadership and leader mindsets
  • Knowledge system integration, cross-sector coalition and capacity building
  • Leader, team, and organizational development
  • Qualitative research design and implementation
  • Case studies as development strategy
  • Holistic impact evaluation/assessment/M&E
  • Leader logics, learning, inquiry, and research
  • Women's leadership development
  • Participatory action research (and YPAR)
  • Organization-, school-, and community-based research
Penn GSE Faculty Michael A. Gottfried

Professor

  • Absenteeism and truancy
  • Career and technical education
  • Early childhood education
  • Disabilities
  • Causal inference
Penn GSE Faculty H. Gerald Campano

Professor

  • Immigrant identities and education
  • Critical literacies
  • Practitioner research
  • School-university partnerships
  • Urban education
Penn GSE Faculty Steve Piltch

Senior Fellow & Director, School Leadership Program

  • School leadership
  • Governance
  • Administration, planning, and social policy
  • Secondary education
  • Counseling and consulting psychology

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