The more Uri Wilensky thought about computers as educational tools, the more he saw their potential to help students comprehend important scientific as well as mathematical concepts.
The students' highly sophisticated rendering of Poe's dense, descriptive language showed an understanding of complex literature not often found in a large urban high school.
SESP's Learning Sciences faculty are well on the way to the goal line for project-based learning in science: producting educational materials that allow students to study science the way real-life scientists do and to make their own discoveries rather than memorizing dull facts.
As a managing director of Heitman, a leading real estate investment firm, Mary Ludgin spends her working life in the Chicago Loop, a world of tall buildings and high finance. When Ludgin arrived at Northwestern in the summer of 1978, however, she envisioned her future in a far different setting - the classroom
Dianna English is 21 years old and about to graduate from Northwestern. You could say she has her whole life in front of her - and at the same time, she already has spent a lifetime working for social justice