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Graduate School of Education
University of Pennsylvania Names Calvin Bland Fellows
The University of Pennsylvania’s Penn Futures Project (PFP) has named three Calvin Bland Faculty Fellows to collaborate on research for boys and young men of color.
In New Role at Penn, a GSE Alum and Formerly Homeless Teen, Finds a Way to Support Vulnerable Youth Across Pennsylvania
Seth Morones-Ramírez, an alumnus of the University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education, grew up in and out of the foster-care system. At times, he was homeless: staying in a motel, car, group home or shelter or sleeping on the couches of kind-hearted friends.
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
Rising Above Adversity, Penn Graduate Finds Calling as a Philadelphia Teacher
The journey for Dominiqué Bynoe-Sullivan to become a teacher has been challenging, from her home in Brooklyn to a high school in Harlem to the University of Pennsylvania.
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Grant Creates New Fellowships for the University of Pennsylvania’s Penn Futures Project
The University of Pennsylvania will establish the Calvin Bland Faculty Fellowships for the Penn Futures Project.
Twenty Penn Students and Alumni Offered 2017-18 Fulbright Grants
Twenty University of Pennsylvania students and alumni have been offered Fulbright U.S.
Penn Graduate School of Education Student Wins Boren Fellowship to Study in West Africa
Anna Drabek, a first-year master’s student in the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education, has won a David L. Boren Fellowship, awarded annually to graduate students to fund study overseas.
Q&A with Daniel Q. Gillion
Q&A with Daniel Q. Gillion
Masses of African-American men from around the country converged on Washington, D.C., in October of 1995 for the Million Man March. Speakers included Jesse Jackson, Rosa Parks, Dick Gregory, and Maya Angelou. Unable to afford the trip to the nation’s capital, 15-year-old Daniel Q. Gillion attended a protest event in Miami that coincided with the March, and was organized by local churches and chapters of the NAACP. Hundreds of similar demonstrations were held across the nation.
Psychology Professor Angela Duckworth to Give Penn’s 2017 Baccalaureate Address
Angela Duckworth, the Christopher H.
Penn GSE Student Faced Failure Before Finding Success Through Education
With a grade point average hovering below 1.0, Larry McDaniel Jr. tried and failed at community college, dismissed on four separate occasions.Now a master’s student in the University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education, McDaniel says his progress was part of a long, difficult and emotional journey.
In the News
The Atlantic
The college financial-aid scramble
Laura Perna of the Graduate School of Education worries that this year’s financial-aid fiasco might diminish trust in the FAFSA system, which requires families to submit a huge amount of personal information.
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Harvard Business Review
How burnout became normal—and how to push back against it
In an opinion essay, Kandi Wiens of the Graduate School of Education explains how to reestablish a healthy baseline that regulates burnout in the work environment.
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Chronicle of Higher Education
The line between two- and four-year colleges is blurring
Robert M. Zemsky of the Graduate School of Education says that higher education needs to do something to make the product better, more relevant, and less costly to students.
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Business Insider
Teacher shortages in America are holding Gen Z students like me back
Richard Ingersoll of the Graduate School of Education says that qualified teachers make a difference for students by both knowing the subject and knowing how to teach the subject.
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The New York Times
Colleges are putting their futures at risk
Jonathan Zimmerman of the Graduate School of Education argues that universities don’t build social justice messages to account for multiple perspectives.
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