Dean Porter is pleased to announce to the GSE community that John Fantuzzo has been appointed the fourth Albert M. Greenfield Professor of Human Relations.

The professorship was created in 1972 by a gift from the Albert M. Greenfield Foundation for a distinguished scholar in the field of human relations.

When the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation set out to create a "Rhodes Scholarship" for teachers, one of the schools they turned to was Penn GSE.

Penn was selected by the Princeton-based foundation as one of four sites nationally to host the new Leonore Annenberg/Woodrow Wilson Teaching Fellowship program.

PHILADELPHIA -- Penn GSE, in conjunction with the University’s Center for East Asian Studies and the East Asian Languages and Civilization program, announces a new program in teacher preparation leading to both the M.S.Ed. degree and faculty recommendation for certification from the Pennsylvania Department of Education in secondary education: Mandarin Chinese Language and Culture.

Andrew C. Porter, the dean of the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania, has been named to the board of trustees of the William T. Grant Foundation. Dr. Porter also serves on the GSE faculty as the George and Diane Weiss Professor of Education.

The University of Pennsylvania's Graduate School of Education (Penn GSE) has recently received research grants totaling almost $5M.

These grants will allow GSE faculty to continue research into instructional improvement, grow nanotechnology instruction in Philadelphia schools, study the implementation of ground-breaking research on Black men in college, and prepare U.S. teachers interested in Chinese language instruction.

On August 1, 2007, Andrew C. Porter began his tenure as Dean and George and Diane Weiss Professor of Education of Penn GSE.

Before accepting the position at Penn GSE, Porter served as the Patricia and Rodes Hart Professor of Leadership Policy and Organization and Director of the Learning Sciences Institute at Vanderbilt University.

On July 17 to 19, 2007, the Graduate School of Education and the Fels Institute of Government will join with SchoolNet to cosponsor a three-day institute designed to provide educators with the tools they need to create and implement data-driven school improvement plans.

Titled "Building and Leading a Data-Driven School Improvement Process at Your School," the institute will feature a guided hands-on workshop where participants will apply what they have learned to build a comprehensive performance management system for their school.

The William Penn Foundation has awarded a three-year, $600,000 grant to the University of Pennsylvania in support of the Kids Integrated Data System (KIDS).

Penn GSE has introduced a new executive-style master's-degree program for working educators and professionals interested in working as school counselors.

The program was created in partnership with the American School Counselor Association (ASCA).

Penn GSE is partnering with East China Normal University on the first-ever doctorate of education program offered in China.

The first cohort of students arrived on the Penn campus this fall for an intensive 12-week course that introduced them to cutting-edge issues in American education. Combined with site visits to area schools and universities, the course at Penn is designed to expand the students' understanding and introduce an international comparative element to their doctoral research.