Our Stories
The work of the Urban Education Institute improves children’s lives. Read some of the latest research and meet some of the students in the University charter schools and other city schools impacted by UEI’s work, along with the teachers, leaders, and other professionals who are working to improve urban education.
- Read about how our charter schools stress the arts.
- Read about the Carter G. Woodson Middle School dedication.
- Read about the UEI staff workshop series. University scholar Charles Payne explains why urban school reform never delivered what it promised.
- Read about the new research from the Consortium on Chicago School Research on ACT preparation.
- Read how schools in the Urban School Improvement Network offered a summer math camp to accelerate student learning.
- Read how the Urban Teacher Education Program is building a national model to prepare teachers for success in urban classrooms.
