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Desegregating Chicago’s Public Schools: Policy ...

Desegregating Chicago’s Public Schools: Policy ...

Dionne Danns

ArnoldR. Hirsch, Making theSecondGhetto: Race&Housing inChicago1940– 1960 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press,1983), 68–98. 6. Ibid. Race,Real 7. Beryl Satter,Family Properties: Estate, and the Exploitation of BlackUrban America ...
Desegregating Chicago’s Public Schools: Policy ...

Desegregating Chicago’s Public Schools: Policy ...

Dionne Danns

“Desmond Wins Presidency of the CTU,” Chicago Tribune, May 26, 1966, 16. Dennis Sodomka and Jack Schnedler, “Won't Drop Seniority— Desmond,” Chicago Daily News, July 10, 1969, 1. Ibid. Jakobi Williams, From the Bullet to the Ballot, ...
Public Schools and The Great War

Public Schools and The Great War

Anthony Seldon

Those who read Public Schools and the Great War will have their prevailing assumptions about the role and image of public schools, as popularised in Blackadder, challenged and perhaps changed.
Public Education: An Autopsy

Public Education: An Autopsy

Myron Lieberman

Argues that public schools are not fulfilling their original goal of teaching basic skills, civic virtues, and desirable attitudes, and encourages the idea of for-profit schools
Department & Discipline: Chicago Sociology at One Hundred

Department & Discipline: Chicago Sociology at One Hundred

Andrew Abbott

In this detailed history of the Chicago School of Sociology, Andrew Abbott investigates central topics in the emergence of modern scholarship, paying special attention to "schools of science" and how such schools reproduce themselves over ...
The World We Created at Hamilton High

The World We Created at Hamilton High

Gerald Grant

Looks at the history of an American high school, compares it with other public and private schools, and discusses the educational and social goals of public schools
A Parents' Guide to Special Education in New York City and ...

A Parents' Guide to Special Education in New York City and ...

Laurie Dubos

ALSO OF INTEREST— New York City's Best Public Elementary Schools, by Clara Hemphill New York City's Best Public Middle Schools, by Clara Hemphill New York City's Best Public High Schools, by Clara Hemphill Butterfly photo by Jack ...
University of Chicago: The Campus Guide

University of Chicago: The Campus Guide

Jay Pridmore

Features the University of Chicago, a private university based in Chicago, Illinois. Highlights the departments, schools, research institutions, campus life, student organizations, and the Admissions Office.
Transition from School to Work: States Are Developing New ...

Transition from School to Work: States Are Developing New ...

DIANE Publishing Company

The Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools district plans to eliminate the general track, and it will eliminate all general track courses when the state does, according to a Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools district official. Two of its schools ...
Ignoring Poverty in the U.S.: The Corporate Takeover of ...

Ignoring Poverty in the U.S.: The Corporate Takeover of ...

Paul Lee Thomas

This work is intended to confront the growing misinformation about the interplay among poverty, public schools, and what schools can accomplish while political and corporate leadership push agendas aimed at replacing public education with ...
The Public School Advantage: Why Public Schools Outperform ...

The Public School Advantage: Why Public Schools Outperform ...

Christopher A. Lubienski

InternationalJournalofEducationalReform 20, no. 3 (2011); Lubienski, Gulosino, and Weitzel, “School Choice and Competitive Incentives”; Lubienski, Linick, and York, “Marketing Schools and Equitable Access in the United States”; Kelly E.
Liberating Schools: Education in the Inner City

Liberating Schools: Education in the Inner City

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... 4O 50 Percentage SOURCES: Denis P. Doyle and Terry W. Hartle, “Where Public School Teachers Send Their Children to School: A Preliminary Analysis” ( Washington: American Enterprise Institute, unpublished ms., n.d.),' Chicago Tribune ...
School Bulletin: Minneapolis Public Schools

School Bulletin: Minneapolis Public Schools

Minneapolis Public Schools. Board of Education

RESIGNATIONS In a communication to Chairman Mikkelson, K. Warren Fawcett, Board member since January 1963, asked to be relieved of his duties because of ill health effective immediately upon completion of the special bond election.
Get Active: Reimagining Learning Spaces for Student Success

Get Active: Reimagining Learning Spaces for Student Success

Dale Basye

It's All in the Blend Metro Nashville Public Schools Learns That with Big Grants Come Big Responsibilities Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools (MNPS) has a lot of things going for it: strong district leadership, dedicated funding, and a ...
New York City's Best Public Elementary Schools: A Parent's Guide

New York City's Best Public Elementary Schools: A Parent's Guide

Clara Hemphill

This essential guide uncovers the inside scoop on schools (the condition of the building, homework, teacher quality, etc.), includes a checklist of questions to ask on a school tour, and incorporates new listings of charter schools and ...
Complete Programs

Complete Programs

National Music Camp

... Chicago violin Derek Katz, Chicago viola Ian McCutcheon, Chicago trumpet David Meltzer, Chicago cello Siobhan Lenore Reynolds, Chicago dance Daniel Sniderman, Chicago trombone Lei Hsin Tung, Chicago oboe Donna Nordenberg , ...
Congressional Record, Volumr 154 Part 16

Congressional Record, Volumr 154 Part 16

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Samuel Beck Elementary was one of only 18 public elementary schools in Texas and 320 schools across the nation to receive this great honor. The No Child Left Behind Blue Ribbon School award distinguishes and honors schools for helping  ...
Chicago: Its History and Its Builders, a Century of ...

Chicago: Its History and Its Builders, a Century of ...

Josiah Seymour Currey

Albert Gallatin Wheeler, capitalist, with offices at No. 307 The Rookery, was »rn in New York city, April 27, 1854, a son of Bethuel Church and Julia Catherine ( Lawrence) Wheeler. His education had its beginning in the public schools of his ...
Chicago, Its History and Its Builders: A Century of ...

Chicago, Its History and Its Builders: A Century of ...

Josiah Seymour Currey

Albert Gallatin Wheeler, capitalist, with offices at No. 307 The Rookery, was born in New York city, April 27, 1854, a son of Bethuel Church and Julia Catherine ( Lawrence) Wheeler. His education had its beginning in the public schools of his ...
New York City's Best Public, Pre-K, and Elementary Schools: ...

New York City's Best Public, Pre-K, and Elementary Schools: ...

Clara Hemphill

Title: New York City's best public pre-K and elementary schools: a parents' guide / Clara Hemphill and Lydie Raschka, with Pamela Wheaton, Laura Zingmond, and the InsideSchools Staff Other titles: New York City's best public elementary ...
Report [of The] General Superintendent

Report [of The] General Superintendent

Chicago Public Schools

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