Education & Social Service

Simple Number, Complex Impact: How Many Words Has A Child Heard?

Audio: Prof. Dana Suskind discusses her research on developing young children’s language skills and the Thirty Million Words Initiative

Dec 7, 2015

Is 'Chi-Raq' Based On True Story?

Prof. Dexter Voisin describes his research showing Chicago gang violence leads to PTSD in children

Dec 7, 2015

International Business Times

UChicago Science of Learning Center seeks to remove walls between research and practice

Dec 3, 2015

Chicago School of Free Speech

In op-ed, alumnus urges other universities to adopt UChicago’s freedom of expression principles

Nov 23, 2015

Terence Turner, anthropologist and human rights advocate for indigenous people, 1935-2015

Nov 17, 2015

Q&A: Karlene Burrell-McRae on supporting students of underrepresented backgrounds

Nov 9, 2015

Updated with retraction: Religious upbringing associated with less altruism, study finds

Nov 5, 2015

Thirty Million Words

Thirty Million Words research reaches parents through book, programming

Nov 4, 2015

Half of black millennials know victim of police violence

Prof. Cathy Cohen says new Black Youth Project report reveals ‘complexity’ of attitudes toward policing and gun violence

Nov 4, 2015

Associated Press

The most powerful thing we could give poor kids is completely free

Article examines Prof. Dana Suskind's Thirty Million Words Initiative and new book about developing language skills in young children

Nov 4, 2015