5/18
Penn in the News
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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The case of the cursing cheerleader: Justices give students free speech win
Sigal Ben-Porath of the Graduate School of Education spoke about the importance of guaranteeing free speech for young people. “You ought to be able to practice this, you ought to be able to make mistakes, correct them, try out ideas—even outrageous ones, even profane ones,” she said. “We have to support young people in developing their voice, and we’re not very good at doing that right now.”
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Widener University’s president will leave the school to join Penn’s faculty next year
Widener University President Julie Wollman will be joining Penn’s Graduate School of Education as a professor next year. Dean Pam Grossman said Wollman offers the School “tremendous experience and an entrepreneurial spirit.”
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Black teachers ground down by racial battle fatigue after a year like no other
Richard Ingersoll of the Graduate School of Education and the School of Arts & Sciences spoke about the pandemic’s impact on the teaching workforce and suggested that the economy’s recovery could increase teacher turnover and retirements.
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Pivoting to middle school teacher from bank teller to stay ahead of disruption
Dean Pam Grossman of the Graduate School of Education said technology has yet to significantly disrupt education or replace the need for teachers. “Teaching and learning are fundamentally relational processes, and without the relationship, it’s hard to engage learners, particularly those that aren’t motivated,” she said.
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It's time to tell students how much college costs
Laura Perna of the Graduate School of Education wrote an opinion piece about students’ need for transparency about the true cost of college, not just the sticker price.
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A state higher education system struggles to create a new template for college athletics
Karen Weaver of the Graduate School of Education wrote about how the merging of six of Pennsylvania’s state colleges will affect student athletes.
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Our divisions are worse than you think
Jonathan Zimmerman of the Graduate School of Education reflects on conservatives and progressives who are locked into their own media bubbles, while each presents America as under existential threat for vastly different reasons.
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Temple’s business school sees virtual reality as future of online learning
The pandemic has necessitated innovation in remote learning. “There’s been a move to using high-quality interactive online learning environments,” says Ryan Baker, an associate professor in the Graduate School of Education who studies how data can be used to improve online learning. Baker predicts that although most schools will return to more traditional modes of teaching, the online platforms that gained a foothold during the pandemic will come to shape the future of homework by bringing it more online.
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A system leader sells his vision for remaking public higher ed
Joni Finney of Graduate School of Education is quoted on the effectiveness of the chancellor of the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education.
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Relief, calm, and a sense that ‘justice was served’ as Philadelphia watches Chauvin’s guilty verdict
Krystal Strong, an organizer with Black Lives Matter Philly and assistant professor in the Graduate School of Education’s Literacy, Culture, and International Education Division, says justice was not obtained in the guilty verdict for Derek Chauvin. “Justice means that George Floyd would be here,” she says.