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%...
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...
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 American psyche is prone to fits of fear that we are falling behind the world. In reality however, we’ve concluded...
Contrary to popular belief, high school students have made significant academic progress in math over the last twenty years. There are two ways to assess the progress of public education in this country: (i) how well students are educated now compared to their...
