The Committee on Education is rooted in two basic tenets. The first is that scholars studying aspects of education within their disciplines will benefit from interdisciplinary interchange. The second is that a well-orchestrated interplay between researchers and practitioners will foster outstanding new scholarship.
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News
The Committee on Education has received a grant from the U.S. Dept. of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences, which will fund two cohorts of doctoral students in the social sciences with an interest in education research. View a press release about this program’s launch here.
Five Committee on Education Pre-Doctoral Fellows are recipients of the 2020-2021 W. Allison David Research Awards. They include Karlyn Gorski (Sociology), Ezra Karger (Economics), David Knight (Political Science), Darnell Leatherwood (Crown), and Helen Lee (CHD). Read more about the awards here.
In Remembrance: Dan Lortie, Influential Sociologist of Education.
Professor Susan Goldin-Meadow (Psychology) was elected in April 2020 to the National Academy of Sciences.
Committee on Education Fellows David McMillon (Harris) and David Knight (Political Science) have won National Academy of Education/Spencer Dissertation Fellowships for 2020 for his proposal to study school disciplinary policy. Read more here.
Media Mentions
Committee on Education faculty member Eve Ewing (Crown) is interviewed by New York Times columnist Ezra Klein on a July 2021 episode of the Ezra Klein Show. Listen here.
Committee faculty member Anjali Adukia’s (Harris) new working paper on skin tone in children’s book is profiled by “The 74.” Read more here.
Committee faculty member Stephen Raudenbush’s (Sociology) research on Double-Dose Algebra in Chicago Public Schools is profiled in the summer edition of Dialogo, the quarterly news publication of the Division of the Social Sciences. Read it here.
Elaine Allensworth (UChicago Consortium) is quoted in a May 2021 Chicago Sun-Times article about pandemic learning loss. Read it here. She is also quoted in an April 2021 Chalkbeat Chicago article on plans for summer schools in Chicago Public Schools. Read that article here.