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Blogs, Bleader, May 28, 2009
5/30 -- Free massages for teachers

The Greenheart Shop offers free massages and reiki for teachers on Saturday afternoon.
- by Julia Thiel
- Tags: Free Shit, Swag, Teachers, Greenheart Shop, free massage, free reiki

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Blogs, Bleader, Aug 28, 2006
Monday Morning Mania

Carson's end, the one thing teachers want most, why Judy shouldn't like conservatives, and why Chicago shouldn't follow northwest Indiana's lead.
- by Harold Henderson
- Tags: Chicago, Education, Teachers, Casinos, Schools, Architecture, Carson'S, State Street, Alan Keyes, Judy Baar Topinka, Lynn Becker

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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?
- by Steve Bogira
- Tags: Feature, CPS, Race to the Top, Diane Ravitch, history, Barbara Byrd-Bennett, John Barker, Carol Caref, education history, history of standardized testing, Karl Androes, Performance Evaluation Reform Act, Chicago Public Schools, teacher evaluation, PERA, teachers, value-added modeling, Reading In Motion, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Chicago Teachers Union, CTU, Alese Affatato, MAP test, Linda Darling Hammond, Measuring Academic Progress test, standardized tests, school testing, Humboldt Park, REACH test, Daisy Maass, Marlene Martin, More Than A Score coalition, education

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News & Features, Politics, Oct 25, 2012
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Still hoping for change

Four years later, five Chicagoans reflect on the president they helped elect
- by Steve Bogira, Mara Shalhoup, Ben Joravsky, Mick Dumke, and Sam Worley
- Tags: Politics, elections, Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, the presidency, presidential election, Obama Chicago, Romney Chicago, Daniel Krieglstein, Obama donors, community organizer, interracial children, Jen Johnson, teachers, Shahshak Ben Levi, poverty, Obama hope, Sandra Leon, nurses, University of Chicago hospital, unions, Republic Steel Mill, underemployment, youth voters, Video

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News & Features, Ben Joravsky on Politics, Feb 19, 2013
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The City Council's rules committee: Where good legislation goes to die

Mayor Emanuel doesn't have to fight City Council proposals he doesn't like—he just buries them.
- by Ben Joravsky
- Tags: Ben Joravsky on Politics, Rahm Emanuel, Richard J. Daley, City Council, Dick Mell, 33rd Ward, rules committee, Ameya Pawar, Roderick Sawyer, independent budget office, privatization, transparency, charter schools, debate, legislation, committees, Matt O'Shea, Pat Dowell, Rick Munoz, Bob Fioretti, Danny Solis, United Neighborhood Organization, UNO, Juan Rangel, Ed Burke, Deb Mell, unions, Chicago Teachers Union, teachers, outsourcing, Englewood, Woodlawn

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News & Features, Michael Miner on Media, Mar 20, 2013
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The dwindling ranks of Team Mr. Wolfson

The Trib got more than it bargained for with the story of a homeless substitute teacher.
- by Michael Miner
- Tags: Michael Miner on Media, Chicago Tribune, Howard Wolfson, Barbara Brotman, teachers, substitute teachers, Skokie, McCracken Middle School, homelessness, homeless shelters, Niles North High School, Team Mr. Woflson, giveforward.com, Steve Mills, gambling, money, inhere, Adam Youhanna, Jim Sweeney, inheritance

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News & Features, Ben Joravsky on Politics, Mar 19, 2013
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The Emanuel administration kicks Persepolis out of class

Chicago Public Schools officials offer a lesson in confiscating books.
- by Ben Joravsky
- Tags: Ben Joravsky on Politics, CPS, curriculum, Chicago Public Schools, Marjane Satrapi, graphic novels, books, Persepolis, Persepolisgate, Nora Flanagan, Richard M. Daley, teachers, Lane Tech, Lane Tech College Prep High School, American Teacher Awards, Barbara Byrd-Bennett, school libraries, Christopher Dignam, Fred Klonsky, American Library Association, Rahm Emanuel, Chicago Tribune, irony, emotion

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News & Features, Ben Joravsky on Politics, May 7, 2013
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?
- by Ben Joravsky
- Tags: Ben Joravsky on Politics, American Federation of Teachers, Chicago Teachers Union, teaching, teachers, unions, labor, class size, schools, education, school principals, peer review, classroom evaluations, teacher evaluations, University of Chicago Lab Schools, CPS, Allison Bates, Chicago Public Schools, Rahm Emanuel, Richard M. Daley, Arne Duncan, Barack Obama, Robert Zimmer, curriculum, International Baccalaureate, Lincoln Park High School, Taft High School, Hyde Park High School, Senn High School, longer school day, parents, Faculty Administration, school governance, Karen Lewis, Persepolisgate, Persepolis, academic freedom

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Blogs, Bleader, May 3, 2010
Through 5/31 — Free Coffee for Teachers at Corner Bakery Cafe

In May, Corner Bakery Cafe offers free coffee to teachers with a valid school ID.
- by Sam Worley
- Tags: Food Chain, Free Shit, Food & Drink, Other Stuff, Food, Apropos of Nothing, Swag, Corner Bakery Cafe, teachers, Teachers Appreciation Week, coffee, free coffee, school

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The Greenheart Shop offers free massages and reiki for teachers on Saturday afternoon.

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Should a Chicago Public Schools teacher have used "nigger" in a sixth-grade class?

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Conclusions to draw from a yearlong Freedom of Information Act battle between the Chicago Public Schools and Glenn Krell, an intrepid north-side parent.

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The treatment of teachers at Lincoln Park High raises questions about Mayor Emanuel's other school pledges

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Everything's on your permanent record now

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So of course he is.

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How the school "consolidation" plan could make teaching and learning even harder.

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Carson's end, the one thing teachers want most, why Judy shouldn't like conservatives, and why Chicago shouldn't follow northwest Indiana's lead.

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Even Chicago school officials allow that they're giving students too many standardized tests. Will they really cut back?

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Four years later, five Chicagoans reflect on the president they helped elect

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Mayor Emanuel doesn't have to fight City Council proposals he doesn't like—he just buries them.

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The Trib got more than it bargained for with the story of a homeless substitute teacher.

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Chicago Public Schools officials offer a lesson in confiscating books.

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The prestigious University of Chicago Lab Schools respect and reward teachers—so why can't the public schools?

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In May, Corner Bakery Cafe offers free coffee to teachers with a valid school ID.