Education Policy

Yuko Goto Butler’s latest book gathers research on language development and pedagogy among children learning a foreign language and presents it in a manner that bridges research and practice.

Penn Graduate School of Education professors and programs are engaged in more than 150 international partnerships and projects in over 60 countries around the globe to enact positive change through education.

A report commissioned by the Midwestern Higher Education Compact and written by Penn GSE’s Laura Perna recommends reliable funding and targeted outreach.

The latest book by Brockenbrough, an associate professor and alum of Penn’s Graduate School of Education, outlines common obstacles to educational equity for Black, LGBTQ+ youth and suggests research-backed guidance for their teachers to help foster their success.

A new study by Penn GSE’s Richard Ingersoll evaluates a team-based model of organizing teaching staff in elementary and secondary schools that integrates teams of teaching staff in contrast to this traditional one-teacher, one-classroom approach.

With funding from the Neubauer Family Foundation, the program’s creation is in direct response to the School District of Philadelphia’s call for targeted support in Algebra 1 instruction.

A new report from Penn GSE’s Center for Benefit-Cost Studies of Education puts numbers on California’s educational challenges.

Weathers, an assistant professor in Penn GSE’s Policy, Organizations, and Leadership division, is one of five early-career researchers who have been selected for the new class of William T. Grant Scholars. Weathers studies the causes and consequences of inequality in K–12 education as well as the effects of K–12 policies on student and school outcomes.

Rameen Iftikhar, who completed a master’s degree in international education development from the Graduate School of Education in January, has been awarded a 2025 Gates Cambridge Scholarship, which covers the full cost of studying at University of Cambridge in England for as long as four years.