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A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
Penn In the News
Sydney Freeman Jr., a visiting scholar, and Laura W. Perna of the Graduate School of Education write that faculty of color and women faculty are known to shoulder more of the invisible labor associated with the college teaching profession.
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Karen Weaver of the Graduate School of Education estimated that UCLA and USC each stood to make as much as $30 million more per year as members of the Big Ten.
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Jonathan Zimmerman of the Graduate School of Education writes that history can inform our contemporary debates, but it can’t resolve them.
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Jonathan Zimmerman of the Graduate School of Education says that the United States has come to an inflection point in our disagreements about what America is and what it means.
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Karen Weaver of the Graduate School of Education writes that while many former athletes, business majors and even some sports fans aspire to work in college sports, it doesn’t take long to realize that it cannot be defined as a typical 40 hour a week job.
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Howard Stevenson of the Graduate School of Education provides tips on coping in the aftermath of the shootings in Uvalde, Texas.
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Robert Zemsky of the Graduate School of Education is quoted on the worries that speeding up curriculum to graduate from college in three years would “cheapen the degree.”
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Janine Remillard of the Graduate School of Education spoke about a local program that prepares Black girls for careers in STEM fields. “Black girls need to be in an environment where they can thrive by being supported as learners, and by being able to look around and see others like themselves,” she said.
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Jonathan Supovitz of the Graduate School of Education commented on the drop in Pennsylvania students’ standardized testing scores. Given the pandemic and the challenges of virtual learning, Supovitz said the scores are “not surprising, and it is also entirely consistent with other places in the country.”
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Sigal Ben-Porath of the Graduate School of Education spoke about how information spreads outside conventional news sources. “You have a really open [media] landscape where people like Joe Rogan can hustle,” she said. “The incentive structure is built around rage rather than thoughtful engagement. At the same time, society’s values are changing. Societies are not like atomic clocks. We change and evolve over time.”