Consortium for Policy Research in Education

11/13/2024

Penn GSE, the School District of Philadelphia, Foundations, Inc. and the Consortium for Policy Research in Education Partnering to Create an Innovative and Scalable College and Career Readiness Model for Students

The University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education (Penn GSE) has been awarded $3.5 million, part of a larger $8 million grant from Education Init

04/04/2024

New working paper on hashtag impacts on hashtag persistence from Sade Bonilla (University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education) and Veronica Minaya (Teachers College Columbia University) indentify key themes in the challenges learners at two-year institutions face and how it impacts their enrollment and degree progression in the first year.

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A working paper from University of Pennsylvania and Columbia University researchers identifies key themes in the challenges learners at two-year institutions face and how it impacts their enrollment and degree progression in the first year.

06/23/2023

Authors CPRE Jonathan Supovitz and Meghan Comstock (Penn Graduate School of Education) have released their 'The impact of a formal teacher leadership program on student performance' impact study. . Read at: https://cpre.news/43Udx0W

✏️ 🏫 Teacher leader programs in the US are gaining traction as a way to improve instruction through collaboration among educators. However, there is a lack of research on how effective these programs are. This article explores how a district's program influenced student performance on state tests by analyzing five years of student-level data to measure the program's impact. 📈

Learn more about it here👇
https://epaa.asu.edu/index.php/epaa/article/view/7524/3126

06/23/2023

✏️ 🏫 Teacher leader programs in the US are gaining traction as a way to improve instruction through collaboration among educators. However, there is a lack of research on how effective these programs are. This article explores how a district's program influenced student performance on state tests by analyzing five years of student-level data to measure the program's impact. 📈

Learn more about it here👇
https://epaa.asu.edu/index.php/epaa/article/view/7524/3126

01/23/2023

CPRE University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education is seeking Part-Time Assessors to administer math assessments to Philadelphia PreK-3rd grade students.

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07/15/2022

The U.S. student body is more diverse than ever, but public schools remain highly segregated. A report from U.S. Government Accountability Office shows more than 1/3 of students attended a predominantly same-race/ethnicity school during the 2020-21 school year.

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A new report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office finds that public schools remain highly segregated along racial, ethnic and socioeconomic lines. One reason: school district secession.

07/07/2022

From CPRE Jonathan Supovitz and Om Manghani at Penn Graduate School of Education — The Role of Inequity in School Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic — shows how social circumstances factored into the adversity that educators faced and how played a significant role in schools’ return to functioning.

The onset of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020 was an unprecedented crisis for educators across the world. In the United States, on or about March 13 of that year, virtually every school across the ...

05/12/2022

Student loan interest rates reset every May. This year, they're on the rise. The change could have an even bigger impact for graduate students and parents, who are allowed to take out larger loans but at higher rates than undergraduate borrowers.

Student loan interest rates reset every May. This year, they're on the rise.

04/05/2022

"We're going to have severe shortages, particularly in the tougher schools, and it's going to have a negative impact [on schools and education in the U.S.]," says Richard Ingersoll at Penn Graduate School of Education

The COVID-10 pandemic worsened a teacher shortage that has been taking place for years, according to a report.

03/30/2022

How did transform and accelerate in the ? Join the German Center for Research and Innovation New York for the 3rd discussion of their education series to get answers to these questions and much more. Featuring CPRE Jonathan Supovitz of Penn Graduate School of Education. Event info and registration: https://bit.ly/EDU-DIG

03/26/2022

New research from CPRE Penn Graduate School of Education looks at boosting literacy in the early years. Across 2016 and 2018, a team of researchers at the university tracked the progress of Kindergarten (Year 1) students in 71 classrooms, all of whom were studying an integrated science and literacy curriculum called (formerly Zoology One), developed by the American Reading Company. CPRE's Abigail Gray and Brooks Bowden discuss their research and findings.

As research finds that exposing children to the language of science and the natural world in key stage 1 engages them with literacy and aids progress, Kate Parker chats to the academics to find out more

03/24/2022

Philadelphia school officials and a principals’ group are disputing whether the district’s proposed budget for the next school year represents a step forward for classrooms, or harmful cuts for one of the largest school districts in the U.S. The group has stressed that additional literacy, math, and counseling staff are needed now, more than ever, as students struggle to recover skill and learning lost during the pandemic.

“Our fear is that a significant reduction of the workforce will leave us ill equipped to serve our children at the start of the school year,” said Lauren Overton, the principal of Penn Alexander School.

The district released budget allocations for individual schools on March 9. The school board is scheduled to adopt a final budget for 2022-23 on May 26.

The district’s chief financial officer Uri Monson said the district looks at demographics over multiple years to project enrollment. “The pandemic didn’t change the general trajectory, even though it made the process of projecting enrollment “interesting,” he said.

Read more at: https://philadelphia.chalkbeat.org/2022/3/23/22992924/schools-budget-philadelphia-split-principals-group-staffing-cuts