By Whet Moser
A new report by a Roosevelt prof highlights where TIF money spent on schools has gone, and to what kind of schools it's gone too—and how it mirrors the dilemma of tax increment finance generally. Read more
Tag: Education
By Geoffrey Johnson
Founder of Project Exploration, an organization that introduces low-income
students to science Read more
By Celeste Watkins-Hayes
The Spelman alumna and our current writer-in-residence discusses the role of schools like Morehouse College and Howard University in today's society—and encourages Chicago-area students to apply to HBCUs. Read more
By Carol Felsenthal
In part two of my conversation with the Chicago Teachers Union president, she shares about her time at Dartmouth College, why she left the classroom for the CTU job, her thoughts on the poverty gap, and more... Read more
By Carol Felsenthal
Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis has had some ugly squabbles with Rahm Emanuel—the longer school day battles, for starters, including his recent charge that the union is “cheating children out of an education”—and, in my opinion, she has often emerged the loser. Here’s part one of an edited transcript of our conversation—about Rahm, Jean-Claude Brizard, Arne Duncan, and the longer school day... Read more
By Whet Moser
Illinois's school report cards are out, so everyone's searching for patterns in the data. One bright spot: Chopin Elementary's use of "looping," an uncommon if storied practice that's getting a new look. Read more
By Whet Moser
Occupy Wall Street and Occupy Together are stirring up debate on political policies that could help the 99 Percent. One that keeps coming up is debt forgiveness, particularly student debt forgiveness. Read more
By Carol Felsenthal
Jean-Claude Brizard, 48, a big man at six feet five—“I’m too fat,” he tells me—was standing outside his office at Clark, just north of Adams, waiting for me as I arrived last Thursday for a sit-down interview. His musical accent reveals his Haiti origins, although he has been in the U.S. since 1976, when he arrived in New York as a 12-year-old. He has been a... Read more
By Whet Moser
The battle between the Chicago Teachers Union and the Chicago Public Schools has culminated in a lawsuit over teacher hours and pay. Here's a long look at the difficulties of getting good information, and a look at the Japanese and KIPP approaches to the school day and year. Read more
By Bryan Smith
LOSS OF INNOCENCE: The star professor dedicated his 29-year career at Northwestern’s journalism school to overturning wrongful convictions and, in doing so, almost single-handedly prompted the end of the death penalty in Illinois. How did he and Medill come to such a bitter and rancorous end—in which no party escaped untarnished? Read more