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Dr. Mawhinney Wins Leadership Award for Faculty Success

Dr. Mawhinney was selected for the inaugural Faculty Diversity Collaborative’s Leadership Award for Faculty Success. This award is given to someone who has made significant contributions to mentoring and advancement of faculty and has a demonstrated track record of leadership in faculty support.

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How real is ‘Abbott Elementary?’ A former Philadelphia school teacher weighs in

ABC’s mockumentary “Abbott Elementary” follows a group of dedicated teachers who work at a Philadelphia school. The show takes a comedic approach toward issues in inner city schools. Here, Lynnette Mawhinney, a former Philadelphia schoolteacher who is now an associate professor of Urban Education at Rutgers University - Newark, weighs in on whether the show accurately portrays the realities of educators in today’s schools.

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Why They Leave: New Book Explores the Reasons Teachers Give for Quitting the Profession. (Hint: It’s Not Students)

Thousands of public school teachers voluntarily leave their jobs each year, hurting student achievement and costing districts billions of dollars to find replacements.

Lynnette Mawhinney and Carol Rinke were once part of that churn (full disclosure: so was the author of this article). Now, with both women serving as professors at teacher prep programs, Mawhinney and Rinke have co-authored a new book that illuminates the many reasons teachers leave the profession and offers recommendations on how to stem the tide.

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