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A complete list of stories featured on Penn Today.
News・ Education, Business, & Law
Karen Weaver, an adjunct assistant professor at the Graduate School of Education, discusses the recent memo from the NLRB general counsel stating certain ‘student-athletes’ are actually employees.
News・ Campus & Community
An inaugural Projects for Progress award helped bring to light a Penn Graduate School of Education and Netter Center for Community Partnerships initiative that readied young learners returning to in-person school this fall, and boosted teachers’ confidence.
News・ Campus & Community
The Campaign exceeded its initial goal, making this fundraising and engagement effort the most successful in Penn’s history.
News・ Education, Business, & Law
Best-selling author Jill Lepore, a Harvard history professor and staff writer at The New Yorker, spoke about teaching the U.S. Constitution during an era of constitutional crisis in a conversation with Graduate School of Education Dean Pam Grossman and Law School Dean Theodore Ruger.
News・ Education, Business, & Law
At an outdoor gathering at Penn Alexander on Sept. 21, the school community and guests celebrated its National Blue Ribbon Award.
News・ Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences
Experts across the University share their thoughts on how 9/11 transformed their field, their research, and the world.
News・ Education, Business, & Law
Penn GSE’s Ameena Ghaffar-Kucher says the lessons of 9/11 offer a chance for students to examine how the event has shaped much of the last two decades, in America and around the world.
Podcast・ Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences
Penn professors join the “Understand This ...” podcast to talk about the fall 2021 return to the classroom, reflecting on what students and educators have experienced during the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, while examining lessons from remote learning.
News・ Education, Business, & Law
While the teaching workforce continues to be heavily dominated by white teachers, in particular white women, the academic and social-emotional benefits for students of color of having a teacher who is their same race have been widely documented. Less studied is the impact that having a same-race teacher has on attendance.
News・ Education, Business, & Law
For parents with children getting ready to start kindergarten, focus on three things: reading, playing, and encouraging.