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Penn honors eight distinguished alumni with Awards of Merit and The Creative Spirit Award
Eight headshots in a grid.

Top row, left to right: Alex H. Park, Lee Spelman Doty, Joan Lau, and Omid Shokoufandeh. Bottom row, left to right: Alberto Chamorro, Laura W. Perna, Todd Lieberman, and William Hohns.

Penn honors eight distinguished alumni with Awards of Merit and The Creative Spirit Award

In addition to the alumni awards, Laura W. Perna of the Graduate School of Education will accept the Faculty Award of Merit.
Projects for Progress, two years in
A group of people in front of a PowerPoint that reads "Penn Projects for Progress"

The Projects for Progress awards reception celebrated the 2021 and 2022 recipients. 2021 recipients are pictured with Charles “Chaz” Howard, University Chaplain and Vice President for Social Equity & Community. (Image: Eddy Marenco)

 

Projects for Progress, two years in

An Oct. 17 event celebrated six teams of Penn students, faculty, and staff working to promote equity and inclusion in Philadelphia by addressing health care, education, and systemic racism as part of the Projects for Progress.

Kristina García

Harold W. McGraw, Jr. Prize in Education winners announced
Barry Dunn, Cheryl Logan, and Roy Pea.

The 2022 McGraw Prize recipients are (left to right) Barry Dunn, Cheryl Logan, and Roy Pea.

Harold W. McGraw, Jr. Prize in Education winners announced

Cheryl Logan, Barry Dunn, and Roy Pea have been selected for outstanding achievement in pre-K–12, higher education and learning science research.

Kat Stein

What is the impact of Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan?
A sign calls for the cancellation of student debt at a rally

A sign calls for the cancellation of student debt at a rally at the Department of Education on April 3, 2022. (Image: Allison Bailey/NurPhoto via AP)

What is the impact of Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan?

A Graduate School of Education expert and faculty director of the Penn Wharton Budget Model’s take a look at the budgetary costs and distributional impact of the U.S. President’s initiative.

Dee Patel

Penn GSE makes math meaningful for West Philly kids
A teacher writing math problems on a white board in front of an elementary school student.

Penn GSE makes math meaningful for West Philly kids

The Responsive Math Teaching project, currently funded by the National Science, has kids in West Philly schools engaging in the work, rather than passively completing it, through summer “math festivals.”

From Penn GSE

Who, What, Why: Kimeze Teketwe brings Luganda to Penn
Kimeze "Dickson" Teketwe Kimeze “Dickson” Teketwe is a master’s student in the International Education Development program at the Graduate School of Education. He is also a graduate fellow in the Center for Africana Studies and lecturer in the Penn Language Center in the School of Arts & Sciences.
  • Who, What, Why

    • Who, What, Why: Kimeze Teketwe brings Luganda to Penn

    The GSE master’s student from Uganda taught the first ever course on this language in the spring of 2022. This fall the program continues with another intro class, followed by an advanced class next spring.

    Michele W. Berger

    On book bans and free speech
    Sigal Ben-Porath in conversation at the Graduate School of Education

    Sigal Ben-Porath is a professor in Penn’s Graduate School of Education, in the Literacy, Culture, and International Education Division. She studies the ways institutions like schools and colleges can sustain and advance democracy.  

    (Image: Eric Sucar)

  • Q&A

    • On book bans and free speech

    Sigal Ben-Porath of the Graduate School of Education says book bans and challenges affect free speech and expression, especially for young people, and that institutions of higher education are important for developing tools based on evidence for assessment.