October 4, 2021
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Keeping up with McGraw Prize Winners: Reshma Saujani, Founder and CEO of Girls Who Code

2018 McGraw Prize winner, Reshma Saujani is the Founder and CEO of Girls Who Code, the international nonprofit organization working to close the gender gap in technology and change the image of what a computer programmer looks like and does. Saujani is also a bestselling author, award-winning podcast host, and fierce advocate for girls and women.

  • Language, Literacy & Culture
July 21, 2021
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Amalia Dache sits on a ledge overlooking a harbor during a research trip to Cuba.

What you need to know about the protests in Cuba

Penn GSE’s Amalia Daché has studied Afro Cuban life and educational opportunities under Cuba’s dictatorship. She says the world is seeing Afro Cubans’ frustration with the racist and classist society the regime maintains.

  • Higher Education
  • Language, Literacy & Culture
July 1, 2021
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Outdoors, a woman wearing a backpack hugs two children. The three people are facing away from the camera. A headline reads, “Collaborating with Communities.”

Collaborating with Communities: Professor Vivian Gadsden Works to Help Children and Families

Educational and social inequities have long been top of mind for Penn GSE’s Professor Vivian Gadsden, who works with families and educators to uplift the underserved and develop a new definition of child well-being.

  • Philadelphia Impact
  • Language, Literacy & Culture
  • Alumni
June 22, 2021
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Students in a project-based learning certificate program class collaborate to find a solution to a problem.

How can project-based learning prepare students for the 21st century?

In a new book, Penn GSE Dean Pam Grossman and GSE’s Zachary Herrmann, Sarah Schneider Kavanagh, and Christopher Pupik Dean say the approach can empower students to be engaged citizens and take on modern challenges.

  • Language, Literacy & Culture
  • Leadership
June 2, 2021
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Nora Gross

How can schools support students after gun violence in their community?

Penn GSE graduate Nora Gross is turning her dissertation, which followed two years in a Philadelphia school where three boys died in shootings, into a book for the University of Chicago Press.

  • Philadelphia Impact
  • Language, Literacy & Culture
May 28, 2021
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Gareth Smail, left, and Irteza Binte-Farid

Two Penn GSE doctoral students are named NAEd/Spencer Dissertation Fellows

Four Penn GSE alumni received NAEd/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowships.

  • Language, Literacy & Culture
April 9, 2021
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Vivian Gadsden

Gadsden to deliver AERA Distinguished Lecture

Ebony Elizabeth Thomas and Yasmin Kafai will also lead sessions at AERA’s annual meeting.

  • Language, Literacy & Culture
March 15, 2021
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Howard Stevenson and Nancy Hornberger

Howard Stevenson and Nancy Hornberger elected to the National Academy of Education

Penn GSE’s Howard Stevenson and Nancy Hornberger will be inducted at the National Academy of Education (NAEd) at November’s NAEd Annual Meeting.

  • Language, Literacy & Culture
March 2, 2021
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Three participants take part in an ERFIP workshop.

Ensuring frontier philanthropy makes a lasting impact

Sharon Ravitch and Reima Shakeir recently released case studies of eight philanthropies operating in the Global South.

  • Global Initiatives
  • Language, Literacy & Culture
February 12, 2021
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Jasmine Blanks Jones works with a student artist at B4 Youth Theater.

Prestigious awards shine a light on Penn GSE’s exceptional students and faculty

GSE students are making a difference with their work around the world.

  • Global Initiatives
  • Language, Literacy & Culture

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