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Brave new world for Chicago schools Tribune
No school district in the nation has yet managed what Chicago officials proposed last week: a sweeping, simultaneous overhaul of a cluster of failing schools.
Chicago Public Schools Plan Draws Anger
Parents, ministers and students jammed the Chicago Public Schools headquarters Wednesday, pleading to save some of the 19 schools swept up in what officials say will be the largest wave of school shake-ups in ... via WBBM-AM Chicago
Josh Vanderjadt in the ClassrooomWBEZ
Josh Vanderjadt teaches biology and chemistry at Farragut Career Academy. Some of his classes lack proper equipment, but they continue to display wonder and enthusiasm for the material.
Cosby: Bad parenting creates poverty Medill Reports
"What is lost in these people who are living and failing is the most simple, most natural part of parenting... And that isn't there."
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Tue Jan 29, 2008 at 6:46 PM
Tuesday Morning News
CPS can fire the teachers and administrators every year and it's not going to make a difference. What nobody wants to acknowledge is that the problem is the quality of the student body. Since the student body cannot be fired, the only option is the delusion that the problem is the teachers.
