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Creating education opportunities for women and girls in Afghanistan

Jan. 31, 2011
Sadiqa Basiri Saleem is co-founder of the Oruj Learning Center in Afghanistan.

Cheat Sheet: Chicago Board of Education approves new charter schools

Jan. 27, 2011
Time again for another edition of Cheat Sheet – your quick and dirty guide to Chicago’s monthly school board meetings.

Unfiltered: Chicago Board of Education

Jan. 26, 2011
Cheat Sheet aired on Eight Forty-Eight Thursday morning: It's a quick and dirty guide to what just happened at the Board of Education.Audio from Cheat Sheet is here but you can hear raw audio from last night's meeting below.Click on "EXTRAS" to listen to unfilter

Chicago school board to vote on five new charter schools

Jan. 26, 2011
Chicago could add five new charter schools to the city if the Board of Education votes Wednesday to approve the schools.The Board had been slated to vote on the schools last month but yanked the proposals at the last minute, amid protests.Wednesday’s planned vote comes as supporters and detrac

Charter schools look to expand in Indiana

Jan. 25, 2011

Merchandise Mart boss re-elected as U of I chairman

Jan. 20, 2011
Merchandise Mart boss Chris Kennedy has been re-elected to head the University of Illinois Board of Trustees.Two new trustees also took their seats on this board at its meeting Thursday morning.

Charles Payne: Reforming urban schools

Jan. 20, 2011
This Poverty, Promise, and Possibility event features Charles Payne, the Frank P.

Global Activism: Connecting rural Ugandans to the rest of the world

Jan. 20, 2011
Grant Buhr is the country director for ProjectFOCUS, an all-volunteer organization that uses art to help facilitate development projects in southwest Uganda. Six months ago they started an internet café to benefit the rural town of Layantonde.

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