Karen Weaver says that other athletic conferences are likely to follow in the footsteps of the Big Ten, assuming they can successfully navigate a maze of thorny legal and political concerns.
Laura Perna says the net-price calculators that universities use when establishing the cost of attendance for students are not standardized and often misleading.
Karen Weaver says that new promotional strategies focused on impact and community from colleges are a great response to recent threats to college enrollment.
Michael Gottfried says a large and growing body of research demonstrates the benefits of assigning students to teachers who share their racial or ethnic backgrounds, ranging from improved test scores and attendance to reduced suspension rates and higher graduation and college enrollment rates.
In Mark Cuban's article discussing the importance of AI, Angela Duckworth's comments on AI's usefulness as a pedagogical tool from her 2025 Penn GSE Commencement speech are quoted.
Michael Gottfried says that threatening legal action and the prospect of children being put in foster care will not solve the problem of parental negligence leading to student absenteeism.
Penn GSE was one of the hosts—alongside the PA Governor’s Office, Penn Engineering, and PennAI—of the “Unlocking AI for Public Good” summit at which experts from around the University and policymakers from throughout the Commonwealth explored how generative AI can be responsibly harnessed for public benefit.
The professor of literacy education says that it should be up to individual teachers to influence how AI will be used in their classrooms rather than enforcing institution-wide technology policies.
A new study coauthored by Penn GSE’s Michael A. Gottfried is the first to show that teachers’ ability to teach in students’ home language, combined with a shared racial or ethnic background, drives greater academic gains.
The assistant professor says that research agendas across the country have been impacted by administrative funding cuts and attitudes, which may mean longer hours for faculty.
As part of the fellowship, the Education Policy doctoral student who studies absenteeism will connect with graduate students from across campus who are all working to bridge their research and global policymaking.
Jonathan Zimmerman says that right-wing students are as eager as their left-leaning peers to censor allegedly ’problematic’ speech, and that And students across the political spectrum are biting their tongues, lest they incur the wrath of their opponents.
Robert Zemsky says that much of the curriculum in a 4-year college model is unnecessary and is pushing for the normalization of a 3-year college degree.
Betty Chandy, featured in WHYY's "The Pulse" around the 25th minute mark, says that teachers must turn their focus on the process of learning rather than the product of learning.
Julie Wollman says that low enrollment becomes a difficult calculus for higher education administrators who believe the major is important to offer but can't justify high overhead for professors to teach a very small number of students.
Eric Hartman, Penn GSE’s new director of the Executive Doctorate in Higher Education Management, argues in a Philadelphia Inquirer op-ed that Pennsylvania is better off when Americans and Chinese learn, trade, research, and innovate together.
Jonathan Zimmerman says large research universities are the big losers in the Trump administration's endowment tax hike and questions why an institution like Penn should pay more than smaller elite colleges and universities.
Former Dean Pam Grossman comments on what drives people to get into the field of education in an EdWeek article that asks “Can Gen Z Be Enticed to Teach?”
Amy Stornaiuolo notes the importance of fan fiction and other engagement in communities around popular media as an important way that young people build literacies and provides ways teachers can leverage the energy students bring to fan texts.
On May 17, in the Palestra, Penn GSE commemorated the achievements of the roughly 700 master’s and doctoral graduates at this year’s Commencement ceremony.
In a story syndicated to Chalkbeat and multiple other outlets, the Hechinger Report cites a 2023 study by Richard Ingersoll finding that most severe teacher shortages are in rural areas, largely because of high turnover.
Damani White-Lewis believes it is wrong to assume that a decline in white male professors is necessarily due to discrimination. He points out that the pool of candidates for academic positions–doctoral candidates and postdocs–has also become more diverse.
This award will support the assistant professor in Penn GSE’s Policy, Organizations, and Leadership division in a five-year research plan on institutional responses to truancy.
In The Key podcast, Karen Weaver discusses how recent NCAA policy changes, including NIL earnings, the transfer portal, and the House settlement, are reshaping college athletics and will have broad impacts across higher education.
Michael Gottfried found in new research that student absenteeism significantly lowers teacher job satisfaction, emphasizing that attendance policies should address the full classroom ecosystem to support both student learning and teacher wellbeing.
In a San Francisco public radio story, Quinn discusses how desegregation-era policies triggered lasting enrollment shifts and funding challenges in San Francisco’s public schools.
