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Education in Chicago: Reason to Cheer: Common Sense About Schools From Thinking Observers

Bill Sweetland | Posted 11.16.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Urban Schools, Arne Duncan, Lincoln Smith, University of Chicago, Helicopter Parents, Remedial Instruction, Two-Year Colleges, Barack Obama, College Admissions, School Reform, Admission Essays, Joseph Bauers, Jim Edgar, Bill Daley, College Essays, Chicago News
Bill Sweetland

Get rid of the college admissions essay. We'll thwart those odious helicopter parents. We know they're helping their pampered offspring cheat their way into Princeton.

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Droppin' Out: The Real American Crisis

Casey Gane-McCalla | Posted 02.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Financial Crisis, Education, High School Dropouts, Drop Out Rate, Urban Schools, New York, Baltimore, Columbus, Los Angeles, Barack Obama, Civil Rights Education, Civil Rights, American Education, Chicago, Detroit, Dropout, Education Reform, Education Civil Rights Issue, Education in America, John McCain, Politics News
Casey Gane-McCalla

For too many years Americans have fought against things: communism, drugs, poverty. Isn't it time to fight for something?

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Homeboy Industries -- Hope Has a New Address

Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 07.30.2008 | Politics

Read More: America's Cradle to Prison Pipeline, Children's Defense Fund, Urban Schools, Urban Youth, Gang Violence, Gang Prevention, Gangs, Politics News
Marian Wright Edelman

Homeboy Industries is the largest gang intervention program in the US and is in the front ranks of diverting young people from the trajectory that leads to marginalized lives, imprisonment and premature death.

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Charter Schools Get the Test Scores Up

Tom Lowry | Posted 07.16.2008 | Politics

Read More: New York City Schools, Urban Schools, Jeffrey Bewkes, Education, Herb Allen, Charter Schools, Sun Valley, Richard Parsons, Deborah Kenny, Jeff Bewkes, Politics News
Tom Lowry

Unlike most of her audience of media moguls, charter school impresario Deborah Kenny has some positive results to brag about. Test scores have improved dramatically at her schools in just five years.

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