Mar 2021
Not Too Late: Improving Academic Outcomes Among Adolescents
National Bureau of Economic Research working paper that evaluates the effectiveness of an innovative intervention, focused on personalized, intensive, in-school tutoring, in improving academic outcomes for adolescents who are academically behind in school.
Overcoming Pandemic-Induced Learning Loss
The Education Lab’s faculty co-directors, Dr. Jens Ludwig, professor at the University of Chicago, and Dr. Jon Guryan, professor at Northwestern University, published a paper commissioned by the Aspen Economic Strategy Group for its 2023 policy volume.
Personalized Learning Initiative Research Brief
Overview of the Personalized Learning Initiative, a nationwide R&D initiative to scale the benefits of tutoring.
Not Too Late: Improving Academic Outcomes Among Adolescents
Read our academic paper on the early Saga studies published in the American Economic Review.
The Economics of Scale-Up
National Bureau of Economic Research paper on a significant challenge in social program implementation – the dilemma of scaling up.
Latest Updates
Help Wanted: Strategies to Recruit a Tutoring Workforce on a Large Scale
MDRC’s Rebecca Davis explores effective strategies for recruiting a tutoring workforce at scale, an essential component of the Personalized Learning Initiative, and advancing educational outcomes through targeted recruitment efforts.
Here’s one roadmap to easing the mental health crisis in teen girls
Education Lab Senior Research Director Monica Bhatt and Youth Guidance Chief Program Officer Nacole Milbrook wrote an op-ed featured in the Chicago Sun-Times on the Working on Womanhood program and their partnership with the city and Chicago Public Schools to systematically provide school-based counseling services to 750 girls.
AbbVie spends $350M to bolster healthcare, education; ‘We look forward to the impact we will make in the decades to come’
Lake County News-Sun’s Steve Sadin highlights AbbVie’s philanthropy including commitments to the University of Chicago Education Lab’s research helping urban youth, “in high schools and beyond.”
