Penn GSE News Archive
America’s schools are more diverse than ever. But the teachers are still mostly white
Richard Ingersoll discusses the lack of diversity in teaching. “It’s not enough to recruit,” he said. “If we don’t improve retention, I’m not optimistic for closing the gap.”
Looking at the supply chain of higher education
"Higher Ed has always been efficient, but only for a certain segment of the population," Ross Aikins told The Supply Change podcast, in a conversation about access, inequality, tuition hurdles and more.
‘Set your price for a slave,’ a fifth-grade work sheet read. It landed the teacher on leave
Ebony Elizabeth Thomas spoke about best practices for, and common missteps in, discussing slavery in the classroom. “We’re really wrestling with how to teach about the trauma of the past,” she said.
How We Can Put Civility Back into Civic Engagement
Harris Sokoloff joins Katherina Rosqueta and Conor Carroll from Penn’s Center for High Impact Philanthropy to discuss a new guide to strengthening democracy.
What to know about lists of financially challenged colleges
Robert Zemsky spoke about the silence from colleges and universities experiencing institutional financial difficulties. “The problem is we’re in a period of time when higher education feels itself increasingly the victim,” he said. “The victim of both public policy but also public discourse. As an enterprise, it doesn’t know how to handle that.”