Education Workshop - Winter 2025 Schedule
The Chicago Education Workshop, which meets weekly throughout the year, brings together students, faculty and other interested colleagues to discuss cutting edge research on education being conducted locally and around the nation. Its purpose is to create a lively forum in which scholars from a range of disciplines can scrutinize the empirical claims made by presenters. Presenters include locally or nationally distinguished scholars as well as Chicago PhD students. Sessions frequently focus on the logic of an argument, the relevance of the methodology, empirical findings, and potential alternative explanations. Each presenter is allocated 80 minutes for presentation, questioning, and discussion; the norm is for the format to be interactive, with key issues raised as they arise. Open discussion through individual or small group meetings with the speaker is encouraged after each workshop.
The Workshop on Education Lecture Series is held on Thursdays from 12:30 p.m. – 1:50 p.m. in 5727 S University Ave, Room 112
| Date | Name of Guest Speaker, Workshop Title | Recent Publications |
| January 16th, 2025 |
Workshop: Black Fugitive Futures: Embracing the Possibilities of Abolition in the Here and Now |
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| January 23rd, 2025 |
Workshop: Here Today, Gone Tomorrow? Toward an Understanding of Fade-out in Early Childhood Education Programs |
Here Today, Gone Tomorrow? Toward an Understanding of Fade-out in Early Childhood Education Programs |
| January 30th, 2025 |
Workshop: Towards Cognitive Mapping for Humans: The Influences of Maps and Mapping on Spatial Cognition |
Seeing the Big Picture: Map Use and the Development of Spatial Cognition |
| February 6th, 2025 |
Workshop: The Effects of New York City’s Small Public High Schools of Choice: A Portfolio of Work Estimating Impacts on Student Outcomes and Exploring School Features Related to Student Success |
New York City’s Small Schools of Choice A First Look at Effects on Postsecondary Persistence and Labor Market Outcomes |
| February 13th, 2025 |
Workshop: Gender Inequality in Academic Science: How and Why Men and Women Benefit Differentially from Major Career Opportunities |
Signals, Information, and the Value of College Names What We Teach About Race and Gender: Representation in Images and Text of Children’s Books Gendered beliefs about mathematics ability transmit across generations through children’s peers |
| February 20th, 2025 |
Workshop: Onward and Upward: Race and Refugee Youth in a Rust Belt City |
Academic Apartheid: Race and the Criminalization of Failure in an American Suburb |
| February 27th, 2025 |
Workshop: How Black Parents Use School Choice to Move Beyond Diversity Workshop: TBD |
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| March 6th, 2025 |
Workshop: Social Networks as a Mediator for Transition Success: Building Better Bridges RCT |
For additional information on the Workshop on Education Lecture Series, to be added to the distribution list, or if you are a person with disabilities who may need assistance, please contact one of our Workshop Coordinators: Peyton Cunningham (cpcunningham@uchicago.edu), Della Cox (della@uchicago.edu), Emma Heidorn (eheidorn@uchicago.edu), or Jake Nicoll (jwnicoll@uchicago.edu).
Guanglei Hong is the Committee on Education Chair and Faculty Representative.