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In 2011, WBEZ filmed four short videos featuring Louder Than a Bomb youth poets performing their work on location. When poet Malcolm X. London spits that “the educated aren’t necessarily the educated,” he’s referring to the inequalities of the public school system. 

Chicago Mayor-elect Rahm Emanuel is standing behind a measure that would allow Chicago Public Schools to extend instructional hours.The Illinois Senate approved last night an educational overhaul that would change how teachers are hired and fired. It also includes a plan that keeps unions from

There is a press conference that took place in Rochester, New York, on Friday that Chicagoans might be interested in.The superintendent of schools there, Jean-Claude Brizard, is on the short list of candidates to lead Chicago’s public schools.An advisory sent to reporters yesterday announced a “pres

Updated at 10:57 a.m. on 4/15/11There are many annual rituals associated with Chicago Public Schools – like the first-day bell-ringing that welcomes students back. But a bigger event might be the district’s yearly estimate of a budget shortfall.

Illinois lawmakers today are considering a wide-ranging education reform bill that’s being called “historic.”  It would fundamentally re-define how teachers are hired and fired in Illinois.

Each Thursday on Global Activism we hear about an individual who’s decided to work to make the world a better place.Deborah Lazar is a librarian at New Trier High School.  She's been involved with New Trier’s Haiti Project, which has been supporting the St.

Liberal arts colleges represent a tiny portion of the higher education market—no more than 2 percent of enrollees. Yet they produce a stunningly large percentage of America’s leaders in virtually every field of endeavor. A former college president trained in law and economics, Victor E.