Education

New Bucksbaum Institute fosters doctor-patient communication

Landmark pledge of $42 million from Bucksbaum Foundation to train physicians as trusted advisors and partners with patients.


John Easton

Engaging parents: A new school 'report card' tells parents what they need to know

Editorial encourages parents to read the University of Chicago Consortium on School Research's report cards of city schools


Chicago schools begin Tuesday under ‘Rahm Emanuel Generation’

Tim Knowles, director of UEI, encouraged that Chicago Public Schools looking at 'common core' learning standards for curriculum


Award-winning teachers find the unexpected

For Valentina Pichugin and other winners of Quantrell and Booth teaching awards, the classroom spurs new questions.


Susie Allen

Mansueto Library creates new space for thought

Opening this week, the new library serves a “hybrid culture” of physical and digital holdings.


Susie Allen

Freakonomics ideas flourish in the classroom

Economist Steven Levitt’s national following has not dimmed his love of teaching undergraduates.


William Harms

College prep starts early in UEI program

Twenty-five eighth-graders stood in a circle at the Woodlawn campus of the University of Chicago Charter School, tossing a ball of pale-blue knitter’s yarn to each other as they traced their own social network.


William Harms

Public school students forge path to top colleges

The University started Collegiate Scholars to help Chicago Public Schools students set high goals. Now the first graduating class has set a national example.


Sara Olkon

503rd Convocation Marks a New Tradition

Watch a slideshow of the 503rd Convocation.


Sara Olkon

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