September 2024: Committee Director of Instructional Programs Lisa Rosen was featured as a UChicago Teaching Success Story discussing the teaching challenge she addresses by using AI in her course. Read the Teaching Spotlight here.
September 16, 2024: COE Fellow Rohen Shah (Harris) and Committee Faculty member Ariel Kalil (Harris) consider “How can we engage parents so their kids show up for preschool?” in a Chicago Tribune Op-Ed. Read the article here.
June 11, 2024: 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.
June 6, 2024: Committee on Education 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 it here.
May 15, 2024: Forbes – How Digital Tools Enhance Parenting, Daniel Levin Professor Ariel Kalil (Harris, COE) sheds light on her research and its implications for addressing educational inequalities. Read it here.
May 15, 2024: Chicago Tribune – Op-Ed: Edwin A. and Betty L. Bergman Distinguished Service Professor Jens Ludwig (Harris, COE): More spending won’t be enough to reduce Chicago’s gun violence. Read it here.
April 25, 2024: Chicago Tribune – Op-Ed: Ariel Kalil: Multigenerational households are key to better support for kids of single mothers. Read it here.
March 26, 2024: Prof. John List (Economics, COE) named speaker for UChicago’s 2024 Convocation ceremony. Read it here.
March 21, 2024: EducationNC Perspective from Assoc. Prof. Micere Keels (CHD, COE) | Understanding disruptive behavior helps keep kids in the classroom. Read it here.
February 29, 2024: WTTW News – Micere Keel’s (CHD, COE) New Documentary Aims to Shine Light on Health Care Disparities Faced by Black Mothers. Read it here.
February 8, 2024: Newsweek: A New Way To Address Gun Violence You’ve Never Heard Of | Opinion – Co-authored by Professor Jens Ludwig (Harris, COE). Read it here.
January 17, 2024: FutureEd – From the Field Q&A: with Elaine Allensworth (Consortium) on Grades Versus Tests in College Admissions. Watch it here.
December 6, 2023: WBEZ – Direct cash payments are changing lives in Cook County. ‘GUARANTEED’ shows how; Assoc. Prof. Eve Ewing (RDI, COE) discusses her podcast series interviewing recipients of guaranteed income programs in Chicago Read it here.
November 7, 2023: The Chicago Maroon – Restorative practices serve as an alternative to school suspension and expulsion that build student relationships and decrease conflict a study co-authored by Asst. Prof. Anjali Adukia (Harris, COE) finds. Read it here.
August 9, 2023: Talk Nerdy Podcast – ‘Gestures w/ Susan Goldin-Meadow’; Audio: Prof. Susan Goldin-Meadow (Psychology, COE) joins the Talk Nerdy podcast to discuss her new book, “Thinking with Your Hands”. Listen here.
May 10, 2023: Hidden Brain – Success 2.0: Taking the Leap; Audio: Prof. John List (Economics, COE) discusses the value of knowing when to pivot to something new. Listen here.
March 22, 2023: The Chronicle of Higher Education – Students Shouldn’t Always Choose Higher-Paying Majors; Article cites research from Prof. Magne Mogstad (COE, Economics) on postgraduate earnings. Read it here.
February 28, 2023: Huffington Post – The Power of A Black Barbie; Prof. Emeritus Margaret Beale Spencer (COE, CHD) says Black parents often have to make a conscious effort to protect their kids from bias. Read it here.
July 1, 2022: Chicago Tribune – Katherine Kinzler: Why it is critical to talk to your kids about abortion rights; In op-ed, Prof. Katherine Kinzler (Psychology, COE) advocates for parents to openly discuss Roe v. Wade decision with children. Read it here.
May 23, 2022: The Leader – School lunch menus are changing from bland to culturally appropriate across NY and NJ; article cites Prof. Susan Levine’s (Psychology, COE) book ‘School Lunch Politics’. Read it here.
April 5, 2022: The Hill – Scale Units can help make social policy less political and more scientific; In Op-ed Prof. John List (Economics, COE) and Prof. Dana Suskind (Pediatrics, COE) discuss scaling social government programs with science. Read it here.
March 31, 2022: EducationWeek – How teachers can support traumatized students (and why they should); Assoc. Prof. Micere Keels (COE, CHD) discusses trauma, education and the COVID-19 pandemic. Read it here.
January 20, 2022: Hechinger Report – Some kids have returned to in-person learning only to be kicked right back out; Assoc. Prof. Micere Keels (COE, CHD) discusses how disciplinary measures like suspensions and expulsions harm students. Read it here.
August 12, 2021: Forbes – Your mother was wrong about “talking with your hands”; Article mentions TEDx talk by Prof. Susan Goldin-Meadow (COE, Psychology) on the power of gesture. Read it here.
August 4, 2021: BBC – The subtle ways your accent defines you; In video, Prof. Katherine Kinzler (Psychology, COE) explains that this means we often judge others, simply for how they speak. Watch it here.
March 8, 2021: Scientific American: Amanda Gorman, Poet Laureate and Gesturer Laureate, In Op-ed, Prof. Susan Goldin-Meadow (Psychology, COE) discusses and analyzes the use of gesture in Inaugural Poet Amanda Gorman’s speech. Read it here.
April 30, 2020: Committee on Education faculty member Dana Suskind (Pediatrics) writes that universal childcare is a crucial public good that we must endeavor to provide during the coronavirus crisis and beyond in an op-ed for the Chicago tribune. Read it here.
April 12, 2020: Committee on Education fellow Bridgette Davis (SSA) is quoted in a Politico article about the effects of the coronavirus pandemic on first-generation and low income college students. Read here. Davis is also interviewed in a UChicago News piece on this topic here.
April 10, 2020: Committee on Education faculty member Elaine Allensworth (Consortium) discusses the challenges of remote schooling for K-12 students and orients priorities for educators and guardians in an article for the Chicago Sun-Times. Read more here.
February 19, 2020: Committee on Education faculty member Micere Keels (CHD) discusses the possible impact of cultural centers at the University with the Chicago Maroon. Read more here.
