Magill learns about the University-Assisted Community Schools partnership at Hamilton with Cory Bowman, associate director of the Netter Center; Bianca del Rio, executive director of UACS programs; Harkavy; Anna Balfanz, ABCS coordinator; and Om Manghani, a third-year student at Penn.
Netter Center kicks off 30th anniversary programming
A fall celebration at Andrew Hamilton School showcased Penn’s flourishing University-Assisted Community Schools initiative.
The Netter Center University-Assisted Community Schools Network, founded in 2015, is noted as a valuable partnership between community schools and about 70 universities.
Fourth-year Victoria Sousa in the School of Arts & Sciences writes about South America’s current educational crisis, brought on by the pandemic in regions without computers or Wi-Fi.
Pa. waived the basic skills requirement for educators. Will it work to attract more teachers?
Dean Pam Grossman and Richard Ingersoll of the Graduate School of Education speak on the potential drawbacks of waiving basic skills tests for teacher preparation programs.
Central Bucks West tells teachers not to use students’ preferred names and pronouns without parent approval
Patrick Sexton of the Graduate School of Education says that procedures like the new guidelines in a suburban school district can disconnect students from their academics and from a necessary system of support.
Do later school start times make teens happier? California’s about to find out
Phillip Gehrman of the Perelman School of Medicine says that California’s new school start time laws are a good idea from a circadian-rhythms and mental health perspective, though challenges exist for younger students forced to wait for the bus in the dark.
Want to regain parents’ trust, public health institutions? Be humble
David Rubin of the Perelman School of Medicine says that there’s no data on what two years of masking children in an early learning environment might do to their socio-emotional development.
Angela Duckworth of the School of Arts & Sciences outlines how fundamental attribution error, the mistaken assignation of observed behavior to a person rather than their circumstances, can play out in education.
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.
Magill learns about the University-Assisted Community Schools partnership at Hamilton with Cory Bowman, associate director of the Netter Center; Bianca del Rio, executive director of UACS programs; Harkavy; Anna Balfanz, ABCS coordinator; and Om Manghani, a third-year student at Penn.
