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Posted inEducation, Higher Education
Budget Cuts are Taking the Heaviest Toll on Colleges that Serve the Neediest Students
States are disproportionately subsidizing schools whose students are wealthier, whiter.
Posted inThe Grade
Education Reporters Heading To Chicago To Learn New Federal Law
It’s a mini-conference on the ABCs of the Every Student Succeeds Act.
Posted inPolitical Animal
I Still Don’t Know Why Chicago is the Murder Capital
The problem is real, and the causes need exploration.
Posted inEducation, Higher Education
The University of Chicago is Made of Safe Spaces
“There’s something fundamentally wrong with the claim that the ideal of academic freedom and the idea of the safe space are opposed to each other.”
Posted inEducation, The Grade
Chicago Journalists Honored For Controversial Education Coverage
There’s no shortage of smart, hard-working journalists in Chicago, including several education reporters and editors. So it’s nice to see so many of them honored for their work last week — even if some of the pieces have been problematic for me and a handful of others. The Chicago Daily Herald was honored with 10 Lisagor […]
Posted inMay 2000
Political Booknotes: Chicago’s Cubs
I WAS A PEE-WEE BLEACHER bum-11 years old during the summer of 1969 when the Chicago Cubs broke my heart by blowing the pennant to the New York Mets. I grew up seven short blocks from Wrigley Field and on dozens of days each summer my mother would heed my pleas to pack me a […]
Posted inMagazine
‘Deep Tunnel’: How Our Money Flows Into Chicago’s Sewers
How Our Money Flows Into Chicago’s Sewers
