“Reporters, researchers and scholars all have unique perspectives on what makes educational improvement so challenging,” Andy Porter, Penn GSE dean, said. “Working together on a seminar like this lets us address the most consequential topics in the field in a way that improves reporting and research.”
Co-sponsored by Penn GSE and the American Educational Research Association, a Washington-based research association for 25,000 scholars engaged in research in education and learning, this year’s seminar will cover such topics as school violence, college spending, principal leadership, improving community colleges, dropouts, college affordability, absenteeism, affirmative action, charter schools, online learning, summer learning loss and early education research.
Porter will discuss “Shifting States: What’s in Store from Common Core,” Thursday at 11:45 a.m. in Houston Hall’s Hall of Flags, and “What About Principals?” at 3:55 p.m. in the Ben Franklin Room.
Richard Ingersoll will talk about “Tomorrow’s Teacher: Paths to Prestige and Effectiveness” Friday at 9 a.m. in Houston Hall’s Bodek Lounge.
Yasmin Kafai will discuss video games and their role in helping children learn with “Serious Fun: Making, Not Playing, Games for Learning” Saturday at 8 a.m. in Houston Hall’s Class of ’49 Room.
Shaun Harper will talk about “Looking at Patterns of Success, Not Failure” Saturday at 9:30 a.m. in Houston Hall’s Ben Franklin Room.
Newark Mayor Cory Booker will deliver the keynote address during the Buskin lecture and luncheon Friday at 12:30 p.m. in the Hall of Flags in Houston Hall.
Griffin Pitt, right, works with two other student researchers to test the conductivity, total dissolved solids, salinity, and temperature of water below a sand dam in Kenya.
Griffin Pitt’s upbringing made her passionate about water access and pollution, and Penn has given her the opportunity to explore these issues back home in North Carolina and abroad.
Helping robots work together to explore the Moon and Mars
Penn Engineers, NASA, and five other universities tested robotic systems designed to help unmanned explorers cooperate in the dunes of White Sands, New Mexico, paving the way for Moon and Mars exploration.
From framework to actions: Provost John L. Jackson Jr. talks Penn Forward
In a Q&A, Provost John L. Jackson Jr. explains the relationship between the strategic framework In Principle and Practice and Penn Forward—a new University-wide process and action plan that will advance Penn forward for the next decade and beyond.
