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Penn GSE Faculty Rand Quinn

Associate Professor

  • Politics of education
  • Community organizing
  • Social movements
  • Organization theory
  • Philanthropy and civil society
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 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 Laura W. Perna

Vice Provost for Faculty

  • College access & affordability
  • College Promise
  • State and federal funding
Penn GSE Faculty Sigal Ben-Porath

MRMJJ Presidential Professor

  • Civic education
  • Politics of education reform
  • Philosophy of education
  • Political philosophy
Penn GSE Faculty Katharine O. Strunk

Dean, Graduate School of Education

  • K–12 education governance
  • Teachers’ unions
  • Collective bargaining agreements
  • Portfolio management models
  • Teacher labor markets
  • School turnaround policies
Penn GSE Faculty Richard M. Ingersoll

Professor of Education and Sociology

  • Teacher supply, demand, shortages, and turnover
  • Teacher preparation & quality
  • Beginning teacher induction & mentoring
  • School organization, leadership, & accountability
  • Teacher workforce trends
  • Teaching as a profession
  • Racial-ethnic diversity in the teaching force
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 Michael A. Gottfried

Professor

  • Absenteeism and truancy
  • Career and technical education
  • Early childhood education
  • Disabilities
  • Causal inference
Penn GSE Faculty Ericka S. Weathers

Assistant Professor

  • K-12 education policy
  • School segregation
  • Truancy
  • Special education
  • K-12 school finance
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
Penn GSE Faculty Jonathan A. Supovitz

Professor

  • District reform
  • Instructional improvement
  • School reform/state takeovers
  • Standardized testing
  • Teacher qualifications

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