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Gateway to global education
Four Penn centers have joined to create the Greater Philadelphia Global Education Network website, a gateway to global resources for regional K-16 educators.
Media training
Penn’s Graduate School of Education and WHYY have teamed up to offer a course for teachers interested in creating compelling media in the classroom.
Share skills
Two Penn seniors want you to be in the know.
Penn’s Netter Center Hosting National Conference Dec. 15
PHILADELPHIA – The Barbara and Edward Netter Center for Community Partnerships at the University of Pennsylvania will hold a joint conference of the Anchor Institutions Task Force and the Campaign for the Civic Mission of Schools on Thursday, Dec .15.
Penn Center for High Impact Philanthropy's 10 Effective Holiday Charitable Giving Tips
PHILADELPHIA — Each holiday season, people are moved by the spirit of giving to make a difference in the lives of others. The Center for High Impact Philanthropy at the University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy & Practice has developed an online guide that lists high-impact, low-cost charitabl
Penn Professor Barbara Savage’s 'Your Spirits Walk Beside Us' Wins 2012 Grawemeyer Award in Religion
PHILADELPHIA -- Barbara Savage of the University of Pennsylvania has won the Grawemeyer Award for the ideas set forth in her book Your Spirits Walk Beside Us: The Politics of Black Religion, published in 2008 by Harvard University Press. The annual award carries a $100,000 prize.
Dec. 7 Penn Lightbulb Café to Focus on Religion in the 2012 Presidential Election
WHO: Anthea Butler, associate professor of religious studies in the School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania
Penn Sociology Professor Studies Talk at the Brink
In October 1962, following the discovery of Soviet nuclear missile sites in Cuba, U.S. President John F. Kennedy called his top advisors together to determine America’s response. It was no time to mince words. America was on the brink of war and the fate of the world hung in the balance.
In New Study, Penn Researchers Unveil Decline of Higher Education Opportunity and Affordability in Illinois
PHILADELPHIA — Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education have found a decade-long decline of higher education opportunity and affordability in Illinois. They also found that state leaders have abandoned effective policies that once resulted in outstanding pe
Penn Honors the Nation’s Veterans
PHILADELPHIA — In honor of Veterans Day, the University of Pennsylvania will hold a flag-raising ceremony on Locust Walk in front of Van Pelt Library at 8:30 a.m. on Friday, Nov.
In the News
Newsweek
Donald Trump gets bad news about his Social Security taxes plan
A study by Kent Smetters of the Penn Wharton Budget Model and colleagues estimates that cutting taxes on Social Security benefits could cost the federal government $1.5 trillion during the next decade and exacerbate Social Security’s projected funding shortfalls.
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Newsweek
Maryland teacher allegedly backs ICE raids on schools in social media posts
Sarah Paoletti of Penn Carey Law says that ICE is limited in its ability to come into homes and detain people without a warrant.
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The New York Times
Trump argues that courts cannot block Musk’s team from Treasury systems
David Zaring of the Wharton School says that the idea of a professionalized civil service has been around since the 19th century.
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Reuters
Trump’s SEC starts shifting agency’s focus as job cut threat spooks staff
Daniel Taylor of the Wharton School says that bureaucratically inefficient agencies can’t be improved by threatening their workforces, having mass layoffs, and making unexplained changes.
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CNBC
To pay for Trump’s tax cuts, House Republicans could raise student loan bills for millions of borrowers
According to an analysis by the Penn Wharton Budget Model, the SAVE student loan repayment plan could cost taxpayers as much as $475 billion over a decade.
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