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REN 2010: Examining Chicago Public Schools

REN 2010: Examining Chicago Public Schools

There are approximately 410,000 students in the 655 schools in the CPS system. That’s approximately 18.8% of all Illinois public school students. 84.9% of these students are from low-income families; 14.4% of these students are limited-English-proficient; 91.3%...

WPS Unveils New Uniforms

Apparently the new women’s professional soccer league (WPS) starts up in the near future. Who knew? Recently the teams unveiled their uniforms. One of the teams got it so right. The short-lived Chicago flag third jerseys that the Fire sported in 2005 are, I...

What Does Arne Duncan Think About NCLB?

Education has been my life’s work, starting on the South Side of Chicago where I grew up along with my sister and brother, as a part of my mother’s inner city after-school tutoring program, Sue Duncan’s Children’s Center, where I learned to, as she says...

Chicago Public Schools: Renaissance 2010

Over the last two months parents, parent groups such as Parents United for Responsible Education (PURE) and the Caucus of Rank and File Educators (C.O.R.E.) — the “reform” caucus of the Chicago Teachers Union have organized protests over announced...

The mezzotint by M.R. James

SOME time ago I believe I had the pleasure of telling you the story of an adventure which happened to a friend of mine by the name of Dennistoun, during his pursuit of objects of art for the museum at Cambridge. He did not publish his experiences very widely upon his...