During a chat for Education Week, David Figlio discusses the impact of school choice, based on his study of Florida's corporate tax credit scholarship program.

Kemi Jona, director of the Office of STEM Education Partnerships, comments on the potential of iLabs to give students access to science laboratories worldwide.

A new study carried out by associate professor Jelani Mandara with researchers at Loyola University Chicago and Walden University found that ethnic pride is important for African American adolescents' mental health. The research was published in Child Development.

Regina Logan's Adulthood and Aging class held discussions with older adults from Chicago and Evanston for the second "intergenerational exchange" on November 11.

Professor David Figlio's study of the Florida system revealed how school ratings affect donations to the school. For example low ratings reduced donations while high ratings did not increase donations.

SESP research assistant professor Regina Logan (PhD93) spoke to alumni at the 2009 Day with Northwestern about "Giving Back: Midlife Career Change and Generativity."

In "The Graduation Gap," Harvard professor Christopher Jencks cites studies by Thomas Cook, Manyee Wong and Peter Steiner about the academic preparation of American students and James Rosenbaum and Jennifer Stephan about ways to improve graduation rates at community colleges.

Rethinking Education in the Age of Technology: The Digital Revolution and Schooling in America, a new book by Allan Collins, professor emeritus of education and social policy, reveals how new technologies are changing education.

VOISE Academy is demonstrating strategies that keep students learning even in case of school closures due to H1N1 outbreaks, according to SESP research associate professor Kemi Jona.

For her graduate internship in the Master of Science in Learning and Organizational Change program, Kate Jones traveled to Jodhpur, India, to work on empowering women entrepreneurs.

Columbia University professor, Neumann recently completed the book Professing to Learn: Creating Tenured Lives and Careers in the American Research University, visited Sophie Haroutunian-Gordon's MSEd 406 class to discuss research and maintaining passion for a subject.

For eight years Barrel of Monkeys, co-founded by Erica Halverson (PhD05) to teach writing workshops and create plays from the kids' writing, has presented "That's Weird, Grandma."

LS alumna Nichole Pinkard (Phd98) is the founder of Digital Youth Network, which gives middle and high school students on the South Side access to the latest digital technology. On WBEZ's "Visionary Profile" on October 27 she commented on why digital literacy is the key to developing citizens of the future.

Professor James Rosenbaum's research team is assessing the impact of a new advising model adopted by Chicago Public Schools that provides "college coaches" for high school students to help them learn about the college application process.

SESP professor James Spillane will be the rapporteur at the Third Annual Lecture on Science and Technology on October 22 that will consider how policy, research and funding affect science learning.

Jerry Stermer, a longtime SESP instructor, took the job of the chief administrator in Illinois government after working many years as president of the child advocacy organization Voices for Illinois Children.

In a Daily Northwestern article, SESP junior Emmaline Pohnl discusses the Davis Street Food Co-op, which she helped organize to bring a new option for locally grown food to the Evanston community.

In a Boston Globe article about political activism, professor Dan McAdams, who researches generativity, comments that political activists feel like role models who are making a difference in the world.

Professors Jeannette Colyvas and James Spillane, with other Northwestern faculty members, co-founded Social Interaction and Organizing at Northwestern. An inaugural symposium will be held on October 16.

The Daily Northwestern featured the iLab network, which uses the Internet to give high school students remote access to the science labs of universities around the world. Kemi Jona, principal investigator for the iLab project and director of OSEP, is interviewed.