Education Workshop - Spring 2025 Schedule

The Committee on Education Workshop is a combination of detailed presentations, discussions and critical evaluations of new findings. Presentations are given by UChicago faculty and students, as well as experts from other universities.

The Workshop on Education Lecture Series is held on Thursdays from 12:30 p.m. – 1:50 p.m. in Harper Memorial Library Room 130

Date	Name of Guest Speaker, Workshop Title	Recent Publications
April 3rd, 2025	Bruce Sacerdote Workshop: How Test Optional Policies in College Admissions Disproportionately Harm High Achieving Applicants from Disadvantaged Backgrounds	How Test Optional Policies in College Admissions Disproportionately Harm High Achieving Applicants from Disadvantaged Backgrounds
April 10th, 2025	Susanna Loeb Workshop: Real-Time Research for Decision Making Across the Decentralized US Education System: The Case of High-Impact Tutoring	The Effects of Virtual Tutoring on Young Readers: Results From a Randomized Controlled Trial Answering the Call: How Changes to the Salience of Job Characteristics Affects College Students’ Decisions Tutor CoPilot: A Human-AI Approach for Scaling Real-Time Expertise Educator Attention: How Computational Tools Can Systematically Identify the Distribution of a Key Resource for Students
April 17th, 2025	Tyler Watts Workshop: Using Meta-Analytic Evidence to Understand Educational Intervention Impact Persistence and Fadeout	Predicting Persistence and Fadeout Across Multi-Site RCTs of an Early Childhood Mathematics Curriculum Intervention Fadeout and Persistence of Intervention Impacts on Social–Emotional and Cognitive Skills in Children and Adolescents: A Meta-Analytic Review of Randomized Controlled Trials
April 24th, 2025	Ashley Cureton Workshop: After the School Day, What’s Next?: Exploring Refugee Youths’ Motivation and Engagement in After-School Programs	Making a Change! Exploring Refugee Youth’s Civic Engagement in Out-of-School Programs to Cultivate Critical Consciousness Creating Safe, Healthy, and Inclusive Schools: Challenges and Solutions An Exploration of the Impact of Racism and Discrimination on the Mental Health of Latinx Youth New Kids on the Block: Refugee Students’ School-Based Experiences and Engagement in an Urban High School Girls Rule Art! Exploring Forcibly Displaced Girls’ Engagement in Arts-Based Programs
May 1st, 2025	Eve L. Ewing Workshop: Exploring Community-Engaged Research	Original Sins: The (Mis)Education of Black and Native Youth and the Construction of American Racism
May 8th, 2025	Cynthia Coburn Workshop: Leveraging Research to Foster Educational Improvement	Research Hidden in Plain Sight: Theorizing Latent Use as a Form of Research Use
May 15th, 2025	Student Presentations Workshop: TBD

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.