CTU offers up a real plan for longer school day
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| Univ. of Chicago Lab School |
Based on the Lab School
“What the best and wisest parent wants for his own child, that must the community want for all of its children.”-- John Dewey, founder of University of Chicago Laboratory School
Lab is where the mayor sends his kids to school at $22,000 a pop. It's whereArne Duncan went to school and where the president sent his kids. The Chicago Teachers Union has now crafted has crafted a proposed schedule, based on Lab's that adds 75 minutes to the typical public elementary school student’s day. The CTU plan offers students an enriched academic program -- something the mayor's plan failed to do.
Just like at what U of C kids often call “the Lab School,’’ the CTU