Educator Charles Abelmann appointed Laboratory Schools director

Charles Abelmann, an educator who has led highly regarded independent and public schools and worked on international education at the World Bank, has been appointed director of the University of...Read more

A $10.5 million gift from University Trustee John W. Rogers Jr., LAB’76, will support a scholarship fund for Laboratory Schools students and establish a professional development program for under-resourced College...Read more

In the past few years, volunteers from the University of Chicago have partnered with Rebuilding Together Metro Chicago to repair the homes of low-income, elderly and disabled Chicagoans. Facilities Services...Read more

Laboratory Schools’ Gordon Parks Arts Hall praised for its architecture and vision

The Gordon Parks Arts Hall at the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools opened this month with events to celebrate the new artistic opportunities the facility is creating for Lab students,...Read more

Nets in hand, 12 University of Chicago Laboratory Schools students spent a day in late August on Naushon Island off the coast of Woods Hole, Mass., where they scouted and...Read more

As a leader in the field of education and curriculum studies, Philip W. Jackson was deeply concerned with the role of schools in the moral development of children. “He believed...Read more

Carrying paint cans, drywall and construction equipment, University of Chicago staff volunteers from various departments traveled to the far South and West sides of the city on April 24 and...Read more

University Trustee John Rogers Jr. steps down as board chairman of the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools

Laboratory Schools facility, named for iconic artist, to support programs in theater, music and visual...

Gordon Parks once told an interviewer that he was sitting in a darkened theater in Chicago, watching a newsreel, when he discovered the power of documentary images. Shortly after, in...Read more

On one of the first days at the Laboratory Schools’ Earl Shapiro Hall, Nursery and Kindergarten Principal Carla Young was walking by floor-to-ceiling glass walls that looked out on a...Read more

Robin Appleby, an educator who has led high-achieving schools on three continents, has been appointed director of the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools , effective July 1, 2014. Appleby currently...Read more

U. of C. Lab High School student Lane Gunderman 'an incredibly amazing kid'

David Magill, director of the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools, has announced that he plans to retire in June 2014, after serving 11 years leading the Schools. The advance notification...Read more

Founder of prestigious 'Concord Review' hails recent publication of four Lab students as unprecedented

Alumna Sherry Lansing says "It's truly the most wonderful school in the world'

Sherry Lansing, a pioneer in the film industry and alumna of the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools , has committed $5 million to support a major new facility for performing...Read more