Minority Students

College From Pennsylvania to Chicago's South Side to the Future, With Fish

Esther J. Cepeda | Posted 10.22.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Hubbard High School, Chicago School Violence, College Minorities, Bucknell University, Chicago Charter Schools, College Success, Abraham Ramirez, Martina Camacho, Cps, Rolando Arroyo-Sucre, New Frontiers of Knowledge, Minority Students, College Access, The Potholes Report, Miguel Del Valle, Chicago News
Esther J. Cepeda

Between the shootings steps from school boundaries and the domestic violence, there's not a whole lot of good news on the teen front. But I have some.

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Changing Relationships With Parents and Students

Robert Rose | Posted 02.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Teacher/Student Relationships, Education, Parent/Teacher Relationships, Minority Students, Politics News
Robert Rose

I asked myself, "Why should the parents of my black students want to attend a teacher-parent conference?" I realized that I had to change the balance of power in the conference.

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Field Trip Over: Meeks' Boycott Kids Finally Out of Media Glare

Esther J. Cepeda | Posted 10.05.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Chicago School Funding, Chicago Public Schools Funding, Chicago Public Schools, Minority Students, School Funding Disparity, Chicago Public Schools Fudning, School Funding Gap, School Boycott, James Meeks School Boycott, James Meeks, Meeks Blagojevich, Blagojevich School Funding, Meeks Boycott, Civil Rights, CPS Boycott, Rod Blagojevich, Meeks New Trier, Cps, Chicago News
Esther J. Cepeda

Anyone who cares about kids in this town getting a shot at a decent education surely looked at the Chicago Public School children who marched into Winnetka and felt the rumbling pride of civil rights crusades past.

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