The Neighborhood Schools Program, founded in 1976–77, just celebrated its 40th anniversary.

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.

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

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

How can schools prepare low-income students for success in college?

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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