Education

Study: More CPS graduates completing college, but rate still troubling

Consortium on Chicago School Research reports increase in CPS freshmen graduating high school and earning four-year college degrees 


How Early-Childhood Education Can Aid the Poorest Children

Article discusses Prof. James Heckman's research, which finds early programs help disadvantaged kids catch up to peers


Summer weekend 2014 worse than St. Valentine's Day Massacre

In op-ed, Prof. Charles Lipson calls for more local programs and school reforms to combat the causes of Chicago’s gun violence problems