May 15, 2025
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Former Secretary of Education Arne Duncan calls for strong education policy to support democracy

The McGraw Center for Educational Leadership hosted Obama’s education secretary for public conversation with Dean Katharine Strunk.

  • Together for Good
  • Education Policy & Analysis
May 12, 2025
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Karen Weaver Discusses the Campus-Wide Impact of NCAA Athletics Reform

Weaver examines the broad implications of the evolving role of college athletics and the coming impacts to institutions and students.

  • Education Policy & Analysis
  • Higher Education
May 6, 2025
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Ericka Weathers selected for the William T. Grant Scholars Class of 2030

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.

  • Education Policy & Analysis
May 2, 2025
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Rand Quinn to KQED: Private school surge in San Francisco tied to desegregation era

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.

  • Education Policy & Analysis
May 1, 2025
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Dr. Manuel González Canché leads a pre-conference workshop on machine-driven text classification and analysis on April 22.

Penn GSE faculty and students share expertise at AERA 2025 in Denver

From first-time presenters to seasoned scholars, the Penn GSE community showed up big at AERA 2025 with fresh ideas and powerful conversations.

  • Education Innovation & Entrepreneurship
  • Education Policy & Analysis
  • Higher Education
  • Language, Literacy & Culture
  • News from Penn GSE
April 21, 2025
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From the classroom to the conference

Penn GSE students explored policy, shared research, and burnished their professional development at the recent Comparative and International Education Society conference in Chicago.

  • Global Initiatives
  • Education Policy & Analysis
April 15, 2025
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The People Behind the Policies

Penn GSE alumni from across the academic spectrum have advised politicians, worked in the White House and the statehouse, and spurred change in our nation’s schools and universities thanks to their evidence-backed expertise in education policy.

  • Philadelphia Impact
  • Education Policy & Analysis
  • Higher Education
  • Alumni
April 9, 2025
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McGraw Center hosts PA lawmakers for bipartisan conversation on education policy in the Commonwealth

Pennsylvania House of Representatives’ Education Committee Chairmen Bryan Cutler and Peter Schweyer discussed how PA lawmakers plan to work together on public school budgets, special education funding, school choice, the PA State Board of Higher Education, and more.

  • Philadelphia Impact
  • Together for Good
  • Education Policy & Analysis
April 3, 2025
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Lorea Peterson Redondo bridges business and education

Lorea Peterson Rodondo will graduate in May with a dual degree from Penn GSE and Wharton. She discusses her ambition to apply lessons learned to education in her hometown of Mexico City and reflects on her experience at Penn.

  • Together for Good
  • Education Innovation & Entrepreneurship
  • Education Policy & Analysis
March 31, 2025
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Should educators share their political views? Penn GSE hosts timely panel on democracy, discourse, and the classroom

Educators and scholars explored how educators can model democratic engagement while honoring student voice and diverse perspectives.

  • Philadelphia Impact
  • Education Policy & Analysis
  • Higher Education
  • Teaching & Learning

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