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.
News
Congratulations to Ralph Brown, Education and Society minor alum, for being selected as a Fulbright finalist for the English Teaching Assistant Award in Luxembourg, and current Education and Society student, Zoë Benjamin, for being selected as a Fulbright finalist for the English Teaching Assistant Award in the Canary Islands, Spain.
The Committee on Education seeks two postdoctoral researchers in basic or applied research on early childhood development. Learn more about the position here.
Congratulations to Caroline Kelly (Crown) for winning an American Educational Research Association Division H Graduate Research Award for her work on “Medicaid Expansion in Chicago Public Schools: A Mixed Methods Study”
Professor Susan Goldin-Meadow (Psychology) recently published a book titled Thinking with Your Hands: The Surprising Science Behind How Gestures Shape Our Thoughts (2023) . Read more about it here.
Five Committee on Education Pre-Doctoral Fellows were 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.
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.
Media Mentions
New Committee on Education faculty member Lesley Turner’s (Harris) AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research Report: “Views toward student loan relief are tied to partisanship and experience with debt” Read it here.
Committee faculty member Eve L. Ewing’s (Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity) work with the Baldwin-Emerson Elders Project preserving the stories of Black, Latine, Asian, Indigenous, and queer elders in America goes public. Read more here.
Committee faculty member Ariel Kalil (Harris) sheds light on her research and its implications for addressing educational inequalities in a Forbes Op-Ed Titled “How Digital Tools Enhance Parenting” Read it here.
In a Chicago Tribune Op-Ed, Committee Faculty Member Jens Ludwig (Harris) cautions that “More spending won’t be enough to reduce Chicago’s gun violence”. Read that article here.