- News & Features, Feature, Jun 13, 2013
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Trying to make separate equal
Having failed at desegregation, Chicago has tried instead to provide quality education in poor, racially isolated schools. That hasn’t worked either.
- News & Features, Feature, Mar 27, 2013
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Standardized testing overkill at CPS
Even Chicago school officials allow that they're giving students too many standardized tests. Will they really cut back?
- News & Features, Feature, Jan 23, 2013
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A tough lesson about the N-word
Should a Chicago Public Schools teacher have used "nigger" in a sixth-grade class?
- News & Features, Feature, Dec 19, 2012
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People Issue 2012:
Tony Bacon, the custodian"The union guy told me, 'Just be happy you got a job.'"
- News & Features, Feature, Oct 31, 2012
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The link between lead poisoning and underperforming students
With mounting evidence that lead poisoning results in lower test scores, more children repeating grades, and worse, why has so little been done in Chicago to reverse the damage?
- News & Features, Feature, Oct 17, 2012
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Two students, two high schools, two divergent paths to college
Jasmeen Wellere grew up on the south side, Hayley Himmelman on the North Shore. Both flourished in their classes, but they've faced very different challenges—and been afforded very different opportunities
- News & Features, Feature, Jul 18, 2012
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Pariahs amid the rainbow
Young, queer, and homeless in Boystown
- News & Features, Feature, Aug 25, 2011
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Back to School
Seven past and present Chicagoans revisit their wonder years
- News & Features, Feature, Jul 21, 2011
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Public schools, private budgets
Charter schools are the fastest-growing part of Chicago's public education system, but how they spend our tax money is mostly a secret
- News & Features, Feature, Jul 21, 2011
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Charter schools report card
How Chicago's charters responded to our FOIA, from "didn't even bother with a lame excuse" to "gold star!"
- News & Features, Feature, Jul 21, 2011
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Charter schools 101
A primer on Chicago's uncharted public education waters
- News & Features, Feature, Sep 23, 2010
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Filed Away?
"Honorably terminated" teachers—some nationally recognized—say they can't get so much as a callback about jobs in the Chicago Public Schools. One colleague's bureaucratic nightmare has given them reason to fear the worst.
- News & Features, Feature, Sep 10, 2009
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Chicago's 2016 Olympic Bid
An archive of the Reader's coverage by Ben Joravsky and Mick Dumke
