IT'S THE KIDS WHO LOSE OUT: Targeted teachers worry about students' futures and their own By Connie Llanos, Staff Writer, LA Daily News | http://bit.ly/hcp5cW Teacher Jolene Kuebler, left, gets a hug from assistant principal Shanna Sarris at Cleveland High, Thursday, March 24, 2011. Both have been notified they are on the list to be laid ...
YOUTHS AND GUN VIOLENCE: CHICAGO’S CHALLENGE - An epidemic of youth violence in Chicago and the city's intensive new efforts to try to reduce it. A NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO SPECIAL SERIES | http://n.pr/g9uZ5t Nearly 700 children were hit by gunfire in Chicago last year — an average of almost two a day. Much of the violence is attributed to gangs in specific parts of town. That has the mayor, ...
Rethinking Schools Vol 23 No 3: THE DUNCAN MYTH - Goodbye to Schools as Businesses + Arne Duncan and the Chicago Success Story: Myth or Reality? + Dunking on Arne Duncan “If you believe that ‘we can't just throw money’ at schools, that unions are a block to reform, that the military should have open access to our kids, and that charter schools are the greatest thing to happen to education since corporal punishment, then ...
