October 24, 2017
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After working with Penn GSE researchers, Meredith School students take the lead in math class

Penn GSE and CPRE researchers partnered with the Philadelphia school to implement a student-based math workshop model.  

 

  • Education Policy & Analysis
  • Teaching & Learning
October 2, 2017
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Former NAACP president Cornell Brooks and Provost Wendell Pritchett discuss the future of charter schools

Cornell Brooks, who led the NAACP, gave the inaugural Steven S. Goldberg and Jolley Bruce Christman Lecture in Education Law.

 

  • Education Policy & Analysis
September 15, 2017
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Sigal Ben-Porath discusses her new book, Free Speech on Campus

Ben-Porath offers a useful framework for thinking about free speech controversies both inside and outside the college classroom, shifting the focus away from disputes about legality and harm and toward democracy and inclusion.

 

  • Education Policy & Analysis
  • Higher Education
September 14, 2017
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Has high school changed in the last 100 years?

In an interview with Chalkbeat, Zimmerman argues that while fundamental elements of high school are similar, to say they haven’t changed isn’t accurate. 

 

  • Education Policy & Analysis
September 6, 2017
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How the Great Recession hurt student performance

Chalkbeat reports that a new paper from Matthew Steinberg is the first research to document the impact of the great recession on learning.

 

  • Education Policy & Analysis
August 25, 2017
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Should colleges consider “study drugs” cheating?

Ross Aikins recently found few top-tier U.S. universities have policies regarding so-called cognitive enhancement drugs, as he told SiruisXM’s Knoweldge@Wharton. 

 

  • Education Policy & Analysis
  • Higher Education
August 10, 2017
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Maynard: Claims by DeVos-backed ‘brain performance’ company ‘misleading at best’

The education policy professor told Education Week Neurocore is misusing evidence to mislead the public.

 

  • Education Policy & Analysis
August 3, 2017
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To change lives, Rob Connor is focusing on the whole family in Trenton school

In helping to found the Christina Seix Academy, Education Policy graduate Rob Connor wanted to rethink urban education.

 

  • Education Policy & Analysis
  • Teaching & Learning
July 18, 2017
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Penn’s Actionable Intelligence for Social Policy project to launch new training program

Actionable Intelligence for Social Policy, or AISP, a joint effort between the University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy & Practice and Graduate School of Education, will launch a training and technical assistance program for state and local governments interested in developing integrated data systems, or IDS.

 

  • Education Policy & Analysis
April 14, 2017
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Educational Opportunity through Technology

David Soo, GR’11, believes technology is key to increasing access to education.

  • Education Policy & Analysis
  • Alumni

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