Education

Pledge

Tmoore1215 — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 12:24:39 -0500

Where Are the Little Red Schoolhouses of Yesteryear?

ArtsEdArn — Sat, 03 May 2008 16:11:50 -0500

While on a trip to Washington, D.C., I paid a visit to the offices of the U.S. Department of Education. Special structures had been built around the entrances to the building- replicas of the archetypal “Little Red Schoolhouse”. I later found out that these had been installed to protect government employees from falling masonry, but why were these particular wooden pieces of nostalgia chosen to grace the doorways to these large, gothic, stone buildings?

“Stolen Cars Crashed into School, Bell”

ArtsEdArn — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 09:51:45 -0500

John Boller is a mathematics professor at the University of Chicago who works with Chicago public school teachers to support greater depth and authenticity in their mathematics teaching. He is working with the Chicago Public Schools Office of Academic Enhancement and with the Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education (CAPE) at Swift and Thorp schools through a U.S. Department of Education grant to integrate the arts with rigorous mathematics instruction.

Behind the CPS School Closings

jeffpinzino — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 11:09:46 -0500

As part of their Renaissance 2010 school transformation plan, the administration of the Chicago Public Schools annually announces a list of low-performing schools to be closed. What's different this year is that community groups are at the table with CPS for the first time.

Unseen Entertainment

ArtsEdArn — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 19:49:48 -0500

A number of years back, an award-winning, Broadway-produced playwright gave a talk at Victory Gardens Theater here in Chicago about the years he had spent making his living resubmitting the same script, in different forms, to a Hollywood film studio. It had quickly dawned on him that, although the studio had sought him out and commissioned this script, the film was never going to be green-lighted for production.

Interest

DanaJones — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 15:36:09 -0600

Interest

tropology — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 00:18:11 -0600

Interest

sinergi — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 12:04:14 -0600