- News & Features, Ben Joravsky on Politics, May 7, 2013
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The school model that's good enough for President Obama and Mayor Emanuel
The prestigious University of Chicago Lab Schools respect and reward teachers—so why can't the public schools?
- 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, Ben Joravsky on Politics, Feb 26, 2013
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Chicago's new BFF is a legislator from Waukegan
State representative Rita Mayfield isn't from the city, but who else is sticking up for its taxpayers?
- Blogs, Bleader, Oct 30, 2012
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Video Drone: The director of American History X takes on the chaos in our schools
On the DVD release of Tony Kaye's Detachment
- News & Features, Ben Joravsky on Politics, Oct 3, 2012
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Today's lesson: charters do not outperform unionized schools
Confronting the anti-teachers' union myth with, you know, facts
- News & Features, Ben Joravsky on Politics, Sep 19, 2012
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Democracy is messy—welcome to the teachers' union
Why teachers' union politics gets a little messy
- Blogs, Bleader, Sep 18, 2012
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CTU strike (susp)ends
Local news outlets are reporting that the CPS teachers' strike is off
- News & Features, Ben Joravsky on Politics, Sep 12, 2012
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Why Chicago teachers hate Rahm
How the teachers union got to the point of a strike
- Blogs, Bleader, Aug 30, 2012
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UNO's Juan Rangel does a damn good Chris Christie impression
The state's biggest charter school operator calls the teachers union "totally irresponsible and reckless"
- Blogs, Bleader, Aug 27, 2012
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All week on the Bleader, class is in session
The latest Variations on a Theme: Back to School Week
- News & Features, Ben Joravsky on Politics, Aug 1, 2012
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Moore and Emanuel block elected school board
Longtime independent Joe Moore helps Mayor Emanuel stall the movement for an elected school board
- News & Features, Michael Miner on Media, Jul 24, 2012
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Death of a cowboy
Where have all the male role models gone?
- Blogs, Bleader, Jan 19, 2012
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That's Professor Axelrod to you
David Axelrod is the University of Chicago's newest, biggest hire
- News & Features, Ben Joravsky on Politics, Nov 17, 2011
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An analysis of Senator Kirk's charter school 'analysis'
Mark Kirk claims that Chicago’s top high schools are charters, but that doesn’t mean it’s true
- Blogs, Bleader, Oct 18, 2011
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One sharp mayor
On Mayor Emanuel, razors, and other sharp objects.
- Blogs, Bleader, Oct 17, 2011
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Thomas Friedman puts on Rahm-colored glasses
The New York Times columnist pens a love letter to Rahm.
- Blogs, Bleader, Oct 12, 2011
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A move to take back TIFs
A big week of Chicago protest rolls on, with demonstrators targeting banks and TIFs.
- Blogs, Bleader, Oct 4, 2011
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UNO's Juan Rangel sweet-talks the City Club
- News & Features, Ben Joravsky on Politics, Sep 29, 2011
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Wake up, Chicago Teachers Union
Mayor Emanuel has changed the rules—and you need to get in the game
- News & Features, Feature, Aug 4, 2011
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The 7 percent solution
Chancellor Cheryl Hyman promises student success at her—"reinvented"—alma mater, the City Colleges. Can she deliver?
