PHILADELPHIA The University of Pennsylvania School of Social Work is changing its name to the School of Social Policy & Practice.  

PHILADELPHIA -Four ethnic clusters from two major American collections are the focus of "Textiles of the Burma Hills" at the University of Pennsylvania Arthur Ross Gallery, 220 S. 34th St., April 23-June 26. The selection of traditional textiles on view provides a window to the minority cultures of the hill tribes.  

PHILADELPHIA -- Grammy-award-winning musician and producer Quincy Jones, philosopher Saul A. Kripke, Comcast-founder Ralph J. Roberts, journalist Judy Woodruff, and Nancy Fugate Woods, dean of the University of Washington School of Nursing have been named along with speaker Kofi Annan as the honorary degree recipients at the University of Pennsylvania's 249th Commencement ceremony.

PHILADELPHIA- Kofi Annan, secretary general of the United Nations, will speak at the 249th Commencement of the University of Pennsylvania on May 16.  He will also receive an honorary Doctor of Law degree.

WHO: The voices of Malcolm X, James Baldwin, Medgar and Charles Evers, Martin Luther King Jr. and more.  Plus a panel of academics discussing "Who Speaks for the Negro," the 1965 book for which the interviews were conducted.   

WHO:Eighth-grade students from The Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander University of Pennsylvania Partnership School (Penn Alexander) WHAT:"Communiversity Day," a day-long campus visit designed to provide area youth an opportunity to experience college life and see first hand the broad spectrum of activities at the University of Pennsylvania

PHILADELPHIA -- An analysis of major international achievement surveys since 1990 shows that, while the U.S. may not be first in the world in terms of education, U.S. students generally perform above average, according to Erling Boe, a professor in the University of Pennsylvania's Graduate School of Education.

PHILADELPHIA -- In a new book "The Education Gospel: The Economic Power of Schooling," University of Pennsylvania education professor Marvin Lazerson and his co-author W. Norton Grubb challenge the widespread view that schools can do everything.

PHILADELPHIA -- Cuts in social services and chronic poverty in U.S. cities and rural areas during the '90s have caused the U.S. to lag behind nearly all of Europe and several other countries in terms of overall social progress, according to the 2004 "Report Card on World Social Progress" by Richard Estes, a University of Pennsylvania School of Social Work professor.

PHILADELPHIA -- On Oct. 28-29, the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania will convene "Equity and Race in a Democratic Society," a symposium focusing on the inequality within communities and schools and the inequities in private and public institutions serving minority and poor children and families, social problems that have persisted despite Brown v.