Graduate School of Education

Rising Above Adversity, Penn Graduate Finds Calling as a Philadelphia Teacher

The journey for Dominiqué Bynoe-Sullivan to become a teacher has been challenging, from her home in Brooklyn to a high school in Harlem to the University of Pennsylvania.

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Grant Creates New Fellowships for the University of Pennsylvania’s Penn Futures Project

The University of Pennsylvania will establish the Calvin Bland Faculty Fellowships for the Penn Futures Project.

Twenty Penn Students and Alumni Offered 2017-18 Fulbright Grants

Twenty University of Pennsylvania students and alumni have been offered Fulbright U.S.

Penn Graduate School of Education Student Wins Boren Fellowship to Study in West Africa

Anna Drabek, a first-year master’s student in the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education, has won a David L. Boren Fellowship, awarded annually to graduate students to fund study overseas.

Q&A with Daniel Q. Gillion

Masses of African-American men from around the country converged on Washington, D.C., in October of 1995 for the Million Man March. Speakers included Jesse Jackson, Rosa Parks, Dick Gregory, and Maya Angelou. Unable to afford the trip to the nation’s capital, 15-year-old Daniel Q. Gillion attended a protest event in Miami that coincided with the March, and was organized by local churches and chapters of the NAACP. Hundreds of similar demonstrations were held across the nation.

Psychology Professor Angela Duckworth to Give Penn’s 2017 Baccalaureate Address

Angela Duckworth, the Christopher H.

Penn GSE Student Faced Failure Before Finding Success Through Education

With a grade point average hovering below 1.0, Larry McDaniel Jr. tried and failed at community college, dismissed on four separate occasions.Now a master’s student in the University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education, McDaniel says his progress was part of a long, difficult and emotional journey.

GSE Students Teach English in Penn Communities Through PEDAL Program

The room is packed. The 24 adults seated in the class, from at least a dozen countries, are each connected to someone at the University of Pennsylvania. They are here to learn to speak English, free of charge.

Penn Undergrad from West Philly Helps Others Achieve College Access

Growing up at 52nd Street and Haverford Avenue in West Philadelphia, Glen Casey did not believe he belonged at the nearby University of Pennsylvania.

During her Penn days in the early 20th century, Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander stands outside Houston Hall.

A song for Sadie Alexander, a Penn alumna of great esteem

Seventeen-year-old Sadie Tanner Mossell arrived at Penn in the fall of 1915 filled with strong-willed ambition, a determination to succeed, and the utmost confidence, in a world that told her she was ugly, ignorant, and inferior. She grew up surrounded by excellence, flowing across generations, and knew that prevalent notions of black inferiority were false and uncivilized.

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