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Overcoming Pandemic Learning Loss: Bringing High-Dosage Tutoring to Students Nationwide
The Aspen Economic Strategy Group (AESG) hosted an event related to the publication of a new paper by the Education Lab’s faculty co-directors, Dr. Jens Ludwig and Dr. Jon Guryan, titled “Overcoming Pandemic-Induced Learning Loss.”
Washington Post exclusive: A program to cut school suspensions in Chicago worked very, very well. Here’s how.
David Kirp and Washington Post staff writer Valerie Strauss discuss the promising impact of restorative practices shown in the Education Lab’s study in partnership with Chicago Public Schools.
Restrictions on Suspending Students From School Show Evidence of Being Effective
Education Week’s Sarah D. Sparks covers the Education Lab’s study on Restorative Practices in this insightful piece exploring the evidence behind the effectiveness of implementing restrictions on student suspensions.
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.”
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.
A Rose-Colored Recovery: Study Says Parents Don’t Grasp Extent of COVID’s Academic Damage
The 74’s Linda Jacobson covered a recent event on pandemic-era learning loss featuring Education Lab faculty co-director Jens Ludwig, who remarked during the panel, “This is the biggest problem facing America.”
Pandemic learning loss could have long-term economic harms
K-12 Dive’s Kara Arundel reflects on a recent Aspen Economic Strategy Group event where Jens Ludwig, faculty co-director of the University of Chicago’s Education Lab, warned that pandemic era learning loss “is the biggest problem facing America that nobody’s talking about.”
Research Shows Benefits of Using Restorative Practices in Chicago Public Schools
Watch an interview with WTTW’s Brandis Friedman and Education Lab Research Director Fatemeh Momeni on the findings of our restorative practices study.
Overcoming Pandemic Learning Loss: Bringing High-Dosage Tutoring to Students Nationwide
The Aspen Economic Strategy Group (AESG) hosted an event related to the publication of a new paper by the Education Lab’s faculty co-directors, Dr. Jens Ludwig and Dr. Jon Guryan, titled “Overcoming Pandemic-Induced Learning Loss.”
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.
Analysis: Why This Tutoring ‘Moment’ Could Die If We Don’t Tighten Up the Models
The74’s Mike Goldstein reflects on a recent Aspen Economic Strategy Group report, “Overcoming Pandemic-Induced Learning Loss” – co-authored by Jens Ludwig, faculty co-director of the University of Chicago’s Education Lab.
UChicago Education Lab’s Research Seeks to Reshape Classroom Culture
The Chicago Maroon’s Vernon Li reflects on a recent Education Lab study that showed promising results from Restorative Practices in Chicago Public Schools.
Students may need more daily tutoring after COVID pandemic
In this episode of WBEZ’s Reset, Sadie Stockdale Jefferson, PhD and Luke Pardue, PhD, economic policy fellow at Aspen Economic Strategy Group sit down with Sasha-Ann Simons to discuss the Education Lab’s latest paper, released as part of the Aspen Economic Strategy Group’s annual policy volume.
