In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
The co-director of the Independent School Teaching Residency program at Penn GSE is an active researcher, largely focused on the intersections of identity development, race, and gender in education concerning students and teachers, and recently released research in collaboration with Girls Leadership, a national nonprofit.
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Stevenson, the Constance Clayton Professor of Urban Education, is a nationally sought expert on how racial stress and racial trauma can affect every stage of life, and the executive director of the Racial Empowerment Collaborative. Hornberger, professor emeritus of education, is internationally known for her work in bilingualism and biliteracy, ethnography and language policy, and Indigenous language revitalization.
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Entrepreneurial ventures that aim to scale global change through education are invited to apply for this year’s competition, which focuses on creating equitable outcomes in education.
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Penn GSE Professor of Practice Sharon Ravitch, postdoctoral fellow Reima Shakeir, and Gul Rukh Rahman of the Edmond de Rothschild Foundation, released case studies of eight successful family philanthropies operating in the Global South.
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Deans Pam Grossman and Erika James argue that to be prepared leaders need to consider the necessary crisis leadership practices that should occur before, during, and after a crisis happens.
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For parents who have the economic means to hire a tutor, this old school educational arrangement may seem like a pandemic-ready panacea. Who wouldn’t want a freshly minted college grad handling that essay on the Gettysburg Address? What could go wrong? Plenty, says Anne Pomerantz, professor of practice at Penn’s Graduate School of Education.
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The renowned Center for Benefit-Cost Studies of Education (CBCSE) has moved from Columbia University to Penn GSE. The Center will be led by assistant professor Brooks Bowden, with founder Henry Levin continuing as founding director and senior fellow. The mission of CBCSE is to advance educational equity by conducting economic evaluations of interventions and policies that addresses educational barriers related to poverty and oppression that prevent students from experiencing the full value of education.
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For this year’s Computer Science for Philly Week, Penn GSE’s Yasmin Kafai and her team designed CodeQuilt Philadelphia, a collaborative activity that allows students to take ownership of their own stories about coding.
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Robert Zemsky, a leader in the field and a professor in Penn GSE’s Higher Education Division, spent the summer briefing university leaders, boards of trustees, system administrators, and policy makers on six trends that will influence higher education decision making in 2021.
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Rebecca Maynard and Brooks Bowden will lead the Predoctoral Training Program in Interdisciplinary Methods for Field-Based Research in Education. The first grant project will prepare doctoral student fellows, drawn from across the Penn campus, to conduct research that informs education policy and practice. A separate grant will fund a series of training programs led by Bowden that will prepare researchers and analysts at state and local agencies to examine the cost effectiveness of education interventions.
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