At a news conference Tuesday, mayoral candidate Gery Chico offered so much good stuff to students and their parents that it’s hard to imagine why any voter with a child, grandchild, niece, or nephew in the Chicago public schools wouldn’t vote for him. I asked him how he…
With Ron Huberman set to step down as CEO of Chicago Public Schools before the end of the school year, could D.C. Public Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee—who is likely to leave her post in the near future—be a good fit for the job?…
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STUDENT VISA: Without leaving Chicago or the suburbs, grown-up students can get a taste of foreign cultures far, far away
A SCIENTIFIC QUEST: A summer devoted to all things science is like opening a portal into another world: awesome. Into the wormhole you go.
I was reading a first-rate profile of Patti Blagojevich in Illinois Issues when I came upon this nugget: “In 1983, Patti left home for the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign to major in economics on a legislative scholarship.”
Patti’s father, Richard Mell, was then and remains today the clout-heavy alderman of the 33rd Ward. How lovely that some nice member of our General Assembly gave the Alderman’s daughter a free ride at the state’s top university…
Chicago books out this month
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Two University of Chicago MBAs take their concept from the classroom to the virtual couch to help troubled veterans
Armed with questions from parents, we ask our panel of admissions experts about getting into college
