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by GIOVANNA BREU | Jan 24, 2010
A gritty industrial patch of a blue-collar Chicago suburb seems an unlikely setting for the pioneering curriculum at Morton Alternative High School. The program, which combines intensive psychotherapy with conventional studies to help gang members and emotionally troubled teenagers finish...
by CRYSTAL YEDNAK | Jan 17, 2010
As Illinois jockeys for position as a leader in education reform with a $500 million application for Race to the Top money, the state’s inability to pay current bills makes educators skeptical of Illinois’s capacity to take on such new...
by CRYSTAL YEDNAK | Dec 20, 2009
The Chicago public schools’ response to a recent court desegregation ruling — a plan to use students’ social and economic profiles instead of race to achieve classroom diversity — is raising fears that it will undermine the district’s slow and...
by JESSICA REAVES | Dec 6, 2009
“Jingle Bells, Hear Our Yells … ” The dozen or so student activists belted out their newly-minted lyrics to holiday classics as they marched across the University of Chicago quadrangle on Thursday in the first snowfall of the season. Protests...
by CRYSTAL YEDNAK | Nov 26, 2009
After raising $35,000 for gym mats, musical instruments and other extras last year, parents at Disney II Magnet School in Chicago now face a more daunting price tag — $100,000 — to keep their children in class an extra hour...
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