A new report suggests U.S. students are performing worse than their peers from a decade ago.

Join Attendance Works, the Institute for Educational Leadership and our campaign partners for the second webinar in the 2026 Attendance Awareness Campaign series, with the theme Your Presence Matters!...

Join Attendance Works, the Institute for Educational Leadership and our campaign partners for the second webinar in the 2026 Attendance Awareness Campaign series, with the theme Your Presence Matters!...

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Join Attendance Works, the Institute for Educational Leadership and our campaign partners for the second webinar in the 2026 Attendance Awareness Campaign series, with the theme: Your Presence Matter...

Join Ingenuity for a pivotal gathering for stakeholders in the Chicago arts education community.

Join Attendance Works, the Institute for Educational Leadership and our campaign partners for the second webinar in the 2026 Attendance Awareness Campaign series, with the theme: Your Presence Matter...

Dual credit can help students be better prepared for college and avoid debt. But some worry about watered-down curriculums and students ending up with credits that selective colleges might not accept.

This 30-minute public television program, produced by Regional Educational Laboratory (REL) Midwest, explores factors that influence chronic absenteeism and features strategies to strengthen engagemen...

Nearly two years after CPS removed police officers from campuses and implemented a new holistic approach to school safety, officials believe that shift could serve as a replicable model for school dis...

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Chicago closed 50 schools promising brighter futures. Studies later showed most students saw little academic benefit.

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This is a guest blog post by Elaine M. Allensworth, Meril Antony, William Delgado, and Marisa de la Torre of the UChicago Consortium on School Research. They share key insights from their January 2026...

Department Consortium Research Nagoaka About the Department As one of the first schools of social work in the United States, the Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice has shaped the...

Far too often, educators are inundated with data that feels overwhelming, irrelevant, or disconnected from their day-to-day work. Join the UChicago Consortium on School Research and the Network for ...

Join CCAPS as we explore the question: What are the most promising and equitable routes to good work for Illinois...

Many of Chicago’s oldest schools are named after white men. The first one named after a Black person goes back to the 1930s.

Far too often, educators are inundated with data that feels overwhelming, irrelevant, or disconnected from their day-to-day work. Join the UChicago Consortium on School Research and the Network for ...

Far too often, educators are inundated with data that feels overwhelming, irrelevant, or disconnected from their day-to-day work. Join the UChicago Consortium on School Research and the Network for ...

Chicago's experience with school closures may provide lessons for Philadelphia as it navigates underutilized buildings and declining enrollment, writes Marisa de la Torre.

For some students, absence isn’t defiance, it’s avoidance of a place that no longer feels safe or worth returning to.

Student attendance: Why it matters and what schools can do about it New research insights and perspectives from the field Across the country, chronic absence rates remain much higher than they were...

Student attendance: Why it matters and what schools can do about it New research insights and perspectives from the field Across the country, chronic absence rates remain much higher than they were...

This brief summarizes findings from the first year of a multi-year study examining the causes, consequences, and impacts of absenteeism in Chicago in post-pandemic years relative to pre-pandemic years...