Education & Social Service

Winter/17

In the 1960s the Small School Talent Search sought promising young scholars in rural areas. Fifty years later, one of those students gives his perspective on the program and its legacy.

Winter/17

Think of children as pint-sized psychologists, says parenting expert Erica Reischer, AM’96, PhD’00.

07.15.2016

Gabby Wimer, Elizabeth Frank, and Joyce Lu, all AB’16, are building MealFlour, a social enterprise centered on mealworms, from the ground up.

06.22.2015

While high-quality educational programming can complement more comprehensive early childhood development interventions, it shouldn’t be a substitute.

Spring 2014

UChicago Careers in Education Professions gets College students out of the classroom and into … the classroom.
07.07.2014

Alexa Martin, AB’04, raises money to combat the Internet access disparity in the city of Chicago.

Fall/87

An excerpt from The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, the Underclass, and Public Policy, by arrangement with the University of Chicago Press. ©1987, the University of Chicago Press. All rights reserved.
Fall/87

Sociologist William Julius Wilson sets forth to help the truly disadvantaged.

Mar–Apr/14

A program to reduce the financial and psychological obstacles to the college application process makes an impact in its first year.

Mar–Apr/14

Leon and Amy Kass develop an online curriculum that inspires insight into the national soul.

02.25.2014

Anne Ford, AM’99, talks to people who are hungry for more than food.