I’m just asking…

I have sat on this idea for several days now and not having seen anything in the news inline with my thinking.  After considering the pro’s and con’s, I’m asking a relatively simple question. Last week John Kass at the Tribune wrote an interesting...

This is What I’m Talking About

This gent here has a new take on education.  The video is not short attention span theater, however it is an interesting… no compelling, look at what is wrong with our educational system....

CPS Gets Help From Discovery Channel

With tales of cannibalistic giant squids and endangered leatherback turtles that travel thousands of miles to lay eggs on the beaches where they were born, Philippe Cousteau, grandson of famed oceanographer Jacques-Yves Cousteau, tried to capture the imaginations of...

One Great School, Not Part of CPS

[Providence St. Mel] The lauded West Side high school — profiled in “The Providence Effect,” a documentary that hit the big screen last year — has long been considered a national model for urban education, sending 100 percent of its low- to...

Daley, Chico Squable on Education

In a back-n-forth through the press: “This is not a personal attack on Mayor Daley,” Chico said. Daley has done a “tremendous job in this city,” Chico said, but added he would continue to “call it the way I see it.” (Full story...