Aug 2020
The Effect of Mentoring on School Attendance and Academic Outcomes: A Randomized Evaluation of the Check & Connect Program
This National Bureau of Economic Research paper investigates the impact of a structured student monitoring and mentoring program called Check & Connect (C&C), aimed at mitigating the effects of reduced resources for school attendance enforcement in urban school systems.
Scaling Promising Practices in Youth Mentoring
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.
Randomized evaluation of a school-based, trauma-informed group intervention for young women in Chicago
Science Advances journal publication.
Working on Womanhood- Research Brief
Research brief for the Working on Womanhood project.
Seizing the Opportunity to Advance Education Equity
2021 Education Lab report on barriers to education faced by CPS students.
Latest Updates
Scaling Up High-Dosage Tutoring: Early Lessons from the Personalized Learning Initiative
Hear from our MDRC partners Leigh Parise in conversation with Barbara Condliffe about early lessons learned from our Personalized Learning Initiative, an effort that is supporting and studying the expansion of high-dosage tutoring programs in school districts across the country.
Inside the Lab: Using tutoring to reverse pandemic-era learning loss
The University of Chicago goes inside the Education Lab to learn how experts are working with public school districts nationwide to tackle learning loss and scale solutions to set students up for future success.
Transform your nonprofit from direct impact to systemic change
The Fast Company covers the University of Chicago Education Lab’s partnership with Saga Education. Together, we’ve amassed evidence through rigorous research that high-impact tutoring leads to significant educational progress.
