Resources

This technical report outlines preliminary results from the Personalized Learning Initiative showing that high dosage tutoring can be scaled and can work–even when delivered in the aftermath of the pandemic and in diverse academic settings.

Overview of the Personalized Learning Initiative, a nationwide R&D initiative to scale the benefits of tutoring.

This video provides an overview of the Education Lab’s evaluation of the effect of restorative practices implemented in high schools across Chicago Public Schools.

This case study by Results for America highlights the Crime Lab and Education Lab’s role in the City of Chicago’s bold initiative to expand the evidence-based Becoming a Man group mentoring model to serve thousands of young men.

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.

This document provides an overview of our work.

Watch our latest video on the Education Lab’s history and vision for the future.

Read the working paper on the results of the Education Lab’s findings from a study of the implementation of restorative practices in Chicago Public Schools.

This research brief details the findings from the Education Lab’s study of the effect of restorative practices in Chicago Public Schools.

Science Advances journal publication.

Learn more about the Choose to Change program at the provider’s website.

Read our academic paper on the early Saga studies published in the American Economic Review.

Research brief for the Working on Womanhood project.

This research paper examines the impact of administrative burden on the effectiveness of public social programs for young people, specifically summer jobs programs.

This research paper addresses the challenges of scaling up and replicating successful human capital interventions due to two key sources of variability: differences in the treatment itself and changes in the target population.