Former Northwestern lacrosse teammates and School of Education and Social Policy alumnae Selena Lasota and Nicole Beardsley Montag will headline the 2026 Ray and Nancy Loeschner Lecture Series on Leadership, speaking at 6 p.m. Sept. 30 in Galvin Recital Hall.
In 1926, the legendary U.S. Route 66 was established, A. A. Milne published his beloved children's book Winnie-the-Pooh, and Henry Ford implemented a pioneering 40-hour work week at his automobile factory.
Miriam Gamoran Sherin has been named associate dean for master’s and professional education at Northwestern's School of Education and Social Policy, a new role that reflects the growing scope and importance of the master’s and professional programs.
A new federal proposal to loosen rules governing Head Start, the nation’s early childhood education program, will gut the program rather than streamline it, Northwestern University professor Terri Sabol argued in a Chicago Tribune opinion piece.
Northwestern's football program named six captains for the 2026 season — all current students or alumni of the School of Education and Social Policy.
More than 30 percent of Northwestern’s 148 Big Ten Distinguished Scholars for the 2025-26 school year are School of Education and Social Policy students or alumni.
Before professor Lin Xiang discovered the modeling program NetLogo, using tech teaching tools felt to her like visiting a state or national park. “We were restricted to established trails and selected viewpoints, with no way to explore the rest of the terrain,” she said.
When advisor Cynthia Coburn thinks about Melanie Muskin's mind, she thinks of “a wire shooting off tons of sparks” — in this case, research ideas ranging from teacher sabbaticals and quitting videos on TikTok to her dissertation topic, early childhood educators' online community.
Amid growing signals that using smartphones and social media is bad for mental health, some SESP students, alumni, and faculty are seeing the upside of taking a break.
After the 2016 presidential election, Sara Shacter (MS90) felt the need to get out of her blue bubble. Could so many people really have a different set of values than she did? When she learned a friend's husband leaned conservative and loved talking politics, she invited him out for brunch.
Cynthia Coburn, the Margaret Walker Alexander Professor of Human Development and Social Policy, received the Martin E. and Gertrude G. Walder Award for Research Excellence.
Jack Lausch Earned the Big Ten Sportsmanship Award; Daniel Svärd, Jordan Clayton and Justin Mullins were also honored.
Humans have a habit of dividing life into stages, but are these categories really useful or meaningful? In a recent New Yorker piece, SESP psychologist Dan P. McAdams tells writer Shayla Love that traditional life stages are limiting.
As captain of the men’s tennis team during his undergraduate days, Northwestern University’s Jamie Sahara (BS02) learned to lead a team long before he ever ran a company.