Education and Social Sciences

The percentage for white Chicagoans, by comparison, was 20%, according to the new study on racial disparities in a highly segregated city.

Celebrating its 22nd season, New Plays for Young Audiences will stage rehearsed readings of three new plays exploring the price of popularity, a Mayan girl’s adventure at sea, and immigration as experienced by youth.

Children as young as three years old are willing to punish others’ bad behavior, even at personal cost, finds a new study by psychology researchers.

Over the course of a school year, elementary school children lose confidence that they can “be scientists,” but remain more confident that they can “do science."

Food Tank, Salon.com and NYU Steinhardt partner on evening speaker series in NYC. First guests include Joel Berg, Raymond Figueroa Jr., Qiana Mickie, Noreen Springstead and other prominent food figures.

The Institute will partner with FDNY to apply Artificial Intelligence to emergency response.

Four women holding major leadership positions in transportation in New York discuss their careers at panel discussion that will take place at NYU Wagner.

Sociologist Ann Morning is available for comment on the potential impact of the proposed citizenship question on the 2020 U.S. Census and on established procedures for adopting census questions.

New research finds that children with poorer language skills are at a disadvantage when given tasks or being spoken to by strangers because they cannot, as easily as their peers, understand speech from people they do not know.

Natasha Strassfeld, assistant professor of special education, explores the benefits of effective partnerships between schools and families