GSE Excellence in Teaching Award |
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April 14, 2015, Volume 61, No. 30 |
Rand Quinn, assistant professor in the Teaching, Learning and Leadership Division of the Graduate School of Education, has received GSE’s 2015 Excellence in Teaching Award.
This award, given annually to an “outstanding member of the teaching faculty,” is an honor bestowed by the GSE student body. The recipients have “a strong commitment to teaching and learning and are known to challenge their students intellectually and imaginatively.”
Dr. Quinn’s research interests include the origins and political consequences of private sector engagement in public education, the politics of race and ethnicity in urban school reform and the impact of community-based institutions, organizations and action in education. His current projects include studies of foundation entrepreneurialism in the California charter school movement, the development and racial politics of school desegregation in the urban West and the political impact of youth organizing for school reform.
Prior to joining the Penn GSE faculty in the fall of 2012, Dr. Quinn was a President’s Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley’s Graduate School of Education. He received his PhD in education (policy analysis) in 2011 from Stanford University, where he was a graduate teaching fellow with the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity and a graduate research fellow with the Center for Philanthropy and Civil Society.
Dr. Quinn is a former community organizer, public policy advocate and nonprofit leader, having spent close to a decade in the social justice sector working to advance education, welfare, housing and immigrant rights. Among his positions, he was a community organizer for Building Opportunities for Self-Sufficiency, director of public policy at the Northern California Coalition for Immigrant Rights and executive director of Services, Immigrant Rights and Education Network. He was a member of the Immigrant Rights Working Group at the United Nations World Conference Against Racism. Over the years, he has consulted for and served on the board of directors of several immigrant rights, cultural arts and welfare rights organizations.
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