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How about focusing our dollars on teaching methodology? Whether it be public, private, parochial, or charter, we are not leveraging computing and communications technology to the hilt.
SouthTown Star | Posted 10.29.2009 | Chicago
The Chicago Public Schools ranks fifth nationally for the number of students enrolled in public charter schools....
New York Times | SAM DILLON | Posted 10.29.2009 | Chicago
Secretary of Education Arne Duncan presided over the closing of dozens of failing schools when he was chief executive of the Chicago public schools fr...
Catalyst Chicago | Sarah Karp | Posted 10.29.2009 | Chicago
Arne Duncan does not want to hear that any of the moves he made as CEO have anything to do with a spike in violence in schools....
Michael Jones | Posted 10.26.2009 | Chicago
By reporting the facts, we can, as a society, stop what is really causing young inner city girls to believe that their economic worth extends no further than child assistance checks.
Chicago Tribune | Judith Graham | Posted 10.23.2009 | Chicago
Chicago Public Schools officials plan to appoint a chief medical officer, a new cabinet level position that will oversee efforts to improve students' ...
Catalyst Chicago | Sarah Karp | Posted 10.22.2009 | Chicago
The average student who enrolls in an alternative school faces steep odds to graduating. Low skills, tough lives and scarce resources at schools are b...
Chicago Breaking News | Azam Ahmed | Posted 10.15.2009 | Chicago
Chicago Public Schools announced today it will open enrollment at a South Side military academy for students who no longer want to attend Fenger High ...
Catalyst Chicago | Sarah Karp | Posted 10.15.2009 | Chicago
In the past year, violent incidents inside or on the grounds of Chicago's high schools rose by almost 20 percent, with students committing aggravated ...
Derrick K. Baker | Posted 10.15.2009 | Chicago
Back in 1977, I was Derrion Albert. But today, sadly, I shudder and cringe at the thought of trying to wade through life as a 16-year-old African-American Chicago public school student.
Hermene Hartman | Posted 10.14.2009 | Chicago
The problem of kids killing each other is not unsolvable. But it is not a problem that the mayor, aldermen, police officers and, least of all, the president will solve.
Rev. Gregory Seal Livingston | Posted 10.08.2009 | Chicago
When I was a pastor on the West Side I found myself in the middle of rioting students on more than one occasion. What happened? Since the riots weren't caught on video, we didn't get any help from the White House.
Fox Chicago | Patrick Elwood | Posted 10.08.2009 | Chicago
A FOX Chicago News investigation has found that millions of dollars worth of equipment has been stolen from Chicago Public Schools. ...
Robert Koehler | Posted 10.07.2009 | Politics
Derrion Albert's death is just another symptom of a city, a nation and a world at perpetual war with itself. It's merely one in a series of tragedies that we are numb to or never hear about.
AP | KAREN HAWKINS | Posted 10.08.2009 | Chicago
CHICAGO — U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and Education Secretary Arne Duncan on Wednesday pledged federal support to fight a surge in youth v...
Bernardine Dohrn | Posted 10.07.2009 | Chicago
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?
Kevin Coval | Posted 10.06.2009 | Chicago
The city will be abuzz with language and records of now from people who are normally never heard from, the youth. Seen and now heard. And safe.
AP | CARYN ROUSSEAU | Posted 10.04.2009 | Chicago
CHICAGO — The funeral of a Chicago teen who was beaten to death on his way home from school drew civil rights leader the Rev. Jesse Jackson and ...
Chicago Public Radio | Linda Lutton | Posted 10.02.2009 | Chicago
The president of the Chicago Teachers Union wants Chicago to create an alternative school for chronically disruptive students....
Matt Farmer | Posted 09.29.2009 | Chicago
Why is Arne Duncan going to Copenhagen? Maybe the IOC will want to hear what steps he is taking to ensure that the rest of our nation's public schools begin performing at the level of those in Chicago.
Paras Bhayani | Posted 09.28.2009 | Chicago
While American students might be "underworked," American school teachers most certainly are not -- particularly for what they are being paid.
Catalyst Chicago | Posted 09.25.2009 | Chicago
Late Thursday afternoon, a federal judge scrapped the CPS desegregation consent decree--a move that likely will result in the district abandoning the ...
Matt Farmer | Posted 09.24.2009 | Chicago
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?
Chicago Sun-Times | FRAN SPIELMAN | Posted 09.23.2009 | Chicago
Despite a federal investigation of alleged clout admissions at Chicago Public Schools, Mayor Daley on Wednesday defended the controversial process tha...
David Murray | Posted 09.22.2009 | Chicago
Our troubles had begun when my wife Kirsten took the job teaching art, K-8, at a West Side elementary school. Then came the informal adoptions.
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Leslie Pratch, Ph.D. | Posted 11.03.2009 | Technology