Commentary: Making neighborhood schools better will take more than money, resources – Chicago Sun-Times

"So when I think of the differences between neighborhood and selective schools, I don’t think about resources. I think about the fact that students in selective schools had been successful for a long time, fully separated from students who hadn’t. One group had been in schools where the expectations and experiences were designed from the beginning to foster pride and achievement — while the other group had been in schools they knew, from the beginning, were considered second-tier."
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Fullbladder
1 year ago

Education starts in the home.

P T Bombast
1 year ago

The program sounds like way to redistribute wealth to the overpaid. Robin Hood in reverse.

Where's Mine ???
1 year ago

Who are the dopey lib-tars that buy into the CPS/CTU under funding shtick would seem the BIG question for CTU/Brandon, CTU, ST/WBEZ, Chalkbeat, R Martire,…etc. The article states the author’s now a library teacher in Franklin Park?

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