Education Policy

Following years of research in Philadelphia schools, the Graduate School of Education’s Responsive Math Teaching team is sharing the practical tools and guiding principles they identified in a new book to help educators make math more meaningful and equitable.

In 2025, Philadelphia public school teachers completed content-focused workshops, offered by Penn’s Teachers Institute of Philadelphia with sponsorship from Penn Press, to use in lessons during the upcoming Semiquincentennial year, helping students to become better informed about their city and their nation.

Penn GSE students in Jen McLaughlin Cahill’s course on YA literature, media, and culture welcomed ninth-grade students from Science Leadership Academy at Beeber into their classroom.

The Initiative investigates and promotes the integration of character-based leadership values and practices into classrooms through student and faculty fellowships and symposiums.

Four honorees were awarded with Penn GSE’s McGraw Prizes in Higher Education, Lifelong Learning, and Pre-K–12 Education in a ceremony in New York City this month.

The newly endowed faculty chair, made possible through a gift from alumna Andrea Pollack and Adam Usdan will support innovative research, teaching, and leadership in the field of special education.

The vice provost for faculty and the Graduate School for Education Centennial Presidential Professor of Education joins 24 scholars from across the country in the first class of fellows of the Association for the Study of Higher Education.

Penn’s Graduate School of Education’s Pioneering AI in School Systems program will expand to five school districts across Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware in December, and will be offered free of charge to participating districts.

Jessica Whitelaw, a lecturer in literacy studies at Penn’s Graduate School of Education and former middle school teacher shares how to combine art with texts to maximize critical inquiry and the imagination.