Adding minutes of classroom time might be helpful, depending on how that extra time is used.
Julie Woestehoff | Posted 06.06.2011
Back in February, a group of CPS high-schoolers busted Rahm Emanuel's chops for making false statements about charter schools on the campaign trail. That didn't stop Rahm, though.
Curtis Black | Posted 05.25.2011
Among the candidates, Miguel del Valle has a unique record: decades of experience working in the trenches on the issues facing Chicago.
Gregory Michie | Posted 05.25.2011
Since Mayor Daley took control of Chicago schools and began appointing business-minded CEOs to head the system, the march toward a numbers-driven vision of education has been steady.
Mike Klonsky | Posted 05.25.2011
Rahm's solution to the city's growing educational woes after 15 years of mayoral control of the schools: Fire thousands of teachers, increase class size, make those remaining work longer hours.
AP | KAREN HAWKINS | Posted 05.25.2011
CHICAGO — U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and Education Secretary Arne Duncan on Wednesday pledged federal support to fight a surge in youth v...
Tracy Siska | Posted 05.25.2011
Who in their right mind thought it would be a good educational decision to move black kids from 95% black North Lawndale to Little Village High School in a 95% Latino community? Racial violence was predictable if not guaranteed.
Bernardine Dohrn | Posted 05.25.2011
Remember the eight extraordinary students in Little Rock who ultimately required the presence of troops for their safe passage into the school they finally integrated? Where was Derrion Albert's safe passage?
Daniel Frank | Posted 05.25.2011
Colonel Francis Wayland Parker knew what President Obama knows: That advocating for public education is a patriotic and political act.
AP | KAREN HAWKINS | Posted 05.25.2011
CHICAGO — Even in the cold rain, Danielle Jones would rather stand on the street and wait for her father to pick her up from her high school on ...
Matt Farmer | Posted 05.25.2011
Aggravated assault, gang activity, arson and gun possession. Why won't CPS release data on the number of such dangerous offenses at my children's schools?
Paras Bhayani | Posted 05.25.2011
The home state of the secretary of education should be leading the way in enacting reforms, especially when they are as straightforward as using data to track student growth, finding ways to recruit non-educators into the profession and closing down failing schools.
Bill Sweetland | Posted 05.25.2011
The more ideas put forward, the more difficult practical action becomes. The more we "innovate," the more resistant and hardened the problems of removing ignorance become.
Lorraine Forte | Posted 05.25.2011
Transform every school into a charter and you'll still have to solve the equation: How to educate students, especially students who often face troubled home lives and come to school woefully unprepared to learn.
Bill Sweetland | Posted 05.25.2011
Nothing that Paul Vallas, Mayor Daley or Arne Duncan did in the last 15 years has had any significant effect on the number of CPS students who can read, write and do basic math acceptably. It's all an illusion.
Crain's Chicago Business | Greg Hinz | Posted 05.25.2011
Chicago Public School reform largely has failed, with the vast bulk of students either dropping out or unprepared for college and apparent gains at th...
Chi-Town Daily News | JAY FIELD | Posted 05.25.2011
Students at two elementary campuses in the controversial Chicago Public Schools turnaround program aren't performing appreciably better than kids in ...
Lorraine Forte | Posted 05.25.2011
Teaching kids is simply not the same as getting the trains to run on time or creating a database to improve crime-fighting.
Mike Klonsky | Posted 07.05.2011