Employment Statistics 101
Should we be surprised by high teacher turnover?
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A Brand-New You
When things turn tough, it may be time for a reinvention. These eight classes point the way
Numbers Man
He modernized Chicago’s emergency-response center, served as Mayor Daley’s chief of staff, and led (albeit briefly) the CTA—all before his 38th birthday. Now Ron Huberman, the Israeli-born gay ex-cop, has brought his intensity and his technocratic management style to the city’s public schools. Failure is not an option.
New Books
May 2009 books: Frank Lloyd Wright: American Master, Into the Beautiful North, Pretty in Plaid, Love and Obstacles
Over the Inkwell
Over cupcakes at the West Town bakeshop Lovely, our writer—a short-story author with a knack for the weird—sat down with Joe Meno. The occasion? The May publication of his new book, The Great Perhaps, about a man who goes on the hunt for a giant squid
Discovered: Sexy Science
A University of Chicago scientist sets out to inject sex appeal into her field
What Arne Learned
President Obama’s new secretary of education takes the lessons of Chicago Public Schools to the big stage
The Young Lit
This winter, three debut novelists help Chicago’s literary fire burn a little brighter
Radical Rehab
Chicago offers second chances for long-ago rebels
The New Aid
As tuition spirals upward, the landscape of financial aid for higher education is changing—more loans, more grants, more help for everyone. They’ll need it