http://www.examiner.com/x-3865-Chicago-Public-Education-Examiner?cid=exrss-Chicago-Public-Education-Examiner en-us Mon, 23 Nov 2009 04:31:56 -0700 Wed, 18 Nov 2009 05:29:00 -0700 BlogCFC http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://www.examiner.com/x-3865-Chicago-Public-Education-Examiner~y2009m11d18-The-Scott-suicide-is-untimely-unlikely-and-probably-untrue?cid=exrss-Chicago-Public-Education-Examiner I know it is politically correct to ignore cultural, ethnic, and racial differences, even when they are broadcast in full color every day right into your living room, like the racial dominance of deeply chiseled African-Americans in Olympic sprint... School Finance Government Intervention Wed, 18 Nov 2009 05:29:00 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-3865-Chicago-Public-Education-Examiner~y2009m11d18-The-Scott-suicide-is-untimely-unlikely-and-probably-untrue?cid=exrss-Chicago-Public-Education-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-3865-Chicago-Public-Education-Examiner~y2009m11d17-The-Chicago-Schools-Board-Presidents-suicide-is-troublesome-and-revealing?cid=exrss-Chicago-Public-Education-Examiner Yesterday one of my lovely ex-wives informed me that the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) Board President, Michael Scott, was murdered. After a few hours of being bummed out about the irony of the man responsible for protecting our children from domes... School Reform Tue, 17 Nov 2009 02:02:25 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-3865-Chicago-Public-Education-Examiner~y2009m11d17-The-Chicago-Schools-Board-Presidents-suicide-is-troublesome-and-revealing?cid=exrss-Chicago-Public-Education-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-3865-Chicago-Public-Education-Examiner~y2009m11d14-Fenger-High-in-Chicago-should-be-the-safest-school-in-America?cid=exrss-Chicago-Public-Education-Examiner The safest airliner is the one that has just survived a safety scare. Look, if a Trans Nutcase Airline pilot puts down in Elbow, Idaho before he reaches his destination because of some kind of malfunction, don’t jump ship, rent a car, and ge... General Ineptitude Sat, 14 Nov 2009 04:59:36 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-3865-Chicago-Public-Education-Examiner~y2009m11d14-Fenger-High-in-Chicago-should-be-the-safest-school-in-America?cid=exrss-Chicago-Public-Education-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-3865-Chicago-Public-Education-Examiner~y2009m11d11-Chicago-Public-Schools-2009-Report-Card-is-dreadful?cid=exrss-Chicago-Public-Education-Examiner Let’s cut through the cow pasture and get right at the hard numbers. The State Report Card on public school performance for 2009 is out. I realize that statistics in general are boring and school statistics are both boring and intentionally ... Academic Performance Wed, 11 Nov 2009 06:57:57 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-3865-Chicago-Public-Education-Examiner~y2009m11d11-Chicago-Public-Schools-2009-Report-Card-is-dreadful?cid=exrss-Chicago-Public-Education-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-3865-Chicago-Public-Education-Examiner~y2009m11d6-Blowing-up-bad-Chicago-schools-did-not-work-for-Arne-the-Duncan?cid=exrss-Chicago-Public-Education-Examiner U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan shut down 61 schools in which students failed to perform at a basic academic level and opened 75 new schools while serving as Chicago’s school superintendent for seven years. The University of Chicago has... Arne Duncan Ron Huberman Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:38:09 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-3865-Chicago-Public-Education-Examiner~y2009m11d6-Blowing-up-bad-Chicago-schools-did-not-work-for-Arne-the-Duncan?cid=exrss-Chicago-Public-Education-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-3865-Chicago-Public-Education-Examiner~y2009m11d3-Arne-Duncan-will-stop-urban-teachers-from-behaving-badly?cid=exrss-Chicago-Public-Education-Examiner Most of us who’ve survived the myths of childhood, the volatility of adolescence and the horrors of a career at one level or another, can recall one or two teachers that helped us along the way and perhaps even inspired us. However, the coro... Government Intervention Arne Duncan Arne Dunca Tue, 03 Nov 2009 01:20:12 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-3865-Chicago-Public-Education-Examiner~y2009m11d3-Arne-Duncan-will-stop-urban-teachers-from-behaving-badly?cid=exrss-Chicago-Public-Education-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-3865-Chicago-Public-Education-Examiner~y2009m10d30-Rev-Meeks-gets-religion-on-the-reality-of-Chicago-schools?cid=exrss-Chicago-Public-Education-Examiner Pastor of the Salem Baptist Church and Illinois State Senator, Rev. James Meeks, published an open letter in the Chicago Tribune. Though I do not entirely agree with its content, I am pleased to see a prominent black man, a professional politician... School Reform Government Intervention Fri, 30 Oct 2009 06:09:57 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-3865-Chicago-Public-Education-Examiner~y2009m10d30-Rev-Meeks-gets-religion-on-the-reality-of-Chicago-schools?cid=exrss-Chicago-Public-Education-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-3865-Chicago-Public-Education-Examiner~y2009m10d29-Chicago-Public-Schools-violence-plan-cannot-prevent-cultural-decadence-and-child-murders?cid=exrss-Chicago-Public-Education-Examiner A 17-year-old Chicago Public Schools student, fatally shot Monday, doesn't have a disciplinary record at school or appear to have ever been in serious trouble with the police, officials said. But Martell Barrett was shot multiple times -- incl... School Violence Arne Duncan Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:44:04 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-3865-Chicago-Public-Education-Examiner~y2009m10d29-Chicago-Public-Schools-violence-plan-cannot-prevent-cultural-decadence-and-child-murders?cid=exrss-Chicago-Public-Education-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-3865-Chicago-Public-Education-Examiner~y2009m10d26-Arnes-Chicago-plan-to-blow-up-schools-mirrors-Daleys-plan-to-blow-up-neighborhoods?cid=exrss-Chicago-Public-Education-Examiner The cat is out of the bag; we now know former Chicago Public Schools (CPS) CEO Arne Duncan contributed directly to the biggest problem in Chicago: kids-killing-kids in the shadow of our public schools. Yes this city has the highest sales tax... Government Intervention Arne Duncan Mon, 26 Oct 2009 07:07:29 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-3865-Chicago-Public-Education-Examiner~y2009m10d26-Arnes-Chicago-plan-to-blow-up-schools-mirrors-Daleys-plan-to-blow-up-neighborhoods?cid=exrss-Chicago-Public-Education-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-3865-Chicago-Public-Education-Examiner~y2009m10d22-President-Obama-shares-responsibility-for-the-Arne-Duncan-debacle?cid=exrss-Chicago-Public-Education-Examiner President Barack Obama is more responsible for the Chicago Public School (CPS) charade than I realized. Or maybe I just didn’t want to take too close a look and get my taxes audited again next year for not drinking the Hope-and-Change kool-a... School Reform Arne Duncan Thu, 22 Oct 2009 06:04:50 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-3865-Chicago-Public-Education-Examiner~y2009m10d22-President-Obama-shares-responsibility-for-the-Arne-Duncan-debacle?cid=exrss-Chicago-Public-Education-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-3865-Chicago-Public-Education-Examiner~y2009m10d21-Chicago-Public-School-tour-of-Fenger-High--Rev-Meeks-is-wrong?cid=exrss-Chicago-Public-Education-Examiner Everyone is jumping on the Fenger High School bandwagon to score points. That isn’t a bad thing, especially as I predicted weeks ago, that Derrion Albert’s death was the new Emmett Till moment in sociological history. President O... Family Factor Government Intervention Arne Dunca Wed, 21 Oct 2009 01:09:18 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-3865-Chicago-Public-Education-Examiner~y2009m10d21-Chicago-Public-School-tour-of-Fenger-High--Rev-Meeks-is-wrong?cid=exrss-Chicago-Public-Education-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-3865-Chicago-Public-Education-Examiner~y2009m10d18-Chicago-Public-Schools--How-to-stop-mob-violence?cid=exrss-Chicago-Public-Education-Examiner The first, primary, and most essential job of a principal is to keep kids safe. We sit in this office in ‘loco parentis,’ that’s Latin for ‘in place of the parent.’ Relax, it’s the only Latin I know, but I took ... Discipline Sun, 18 Oct 2009 08:46:22 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-3865-Chicago-Public-Education-Examiner~y2009m10d18-Chicago-Public-Schools--How-to-stop-mob-violence?cid=exrss-Chicago-Public-Education-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-3865-Chicago-Public-Education-Examiner~y2009m10d11-The-declining-African-American-and-the-emerging-MexicanAmerian-in-Chicago?cid=exrss-Chicago-Public-Education-Examiner Senator Daniel Patrick Monynihan  For years now phony school reform has misled municipal authorities just enough to give them an excuse to ignore the real plight of our neighborhood schools, and that in turn, provided poverty-pimp politicia... Family Factor Education History Sun, 11 Oct 2009 12:43:00 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-3865-Chicago-Public-Education-Examiner~y2009m10d11-The-declining-African-American-and-the-emerging-MexicanAmerian-in-Chicago?cid=exrss-Chicago-Public-Education-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-3865-Chicago-Public-Education-Examiner~y2009m10d7-Arne-Duncans-school-reform-plans-are-a-root-cause-of-our-childrens-deaths?cid=exrss-Chicago-Public-Education-Examiner   Congratulations, Secretary Duncan; you’ve skipped town and left us with Baghdad on the Lake.  By closing down neighborhood schools to facilitate the growth of your pet charter schools, you have done to Chicago neighborhoods what the... Government Intervention Ron Huberman Arne Dunca Wed, 07 Oct 2009 00:10:21 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-3865-Chicago-Public-Education-Examiner~y2009m10d7-Arne-Duncans-school-reform-plans-are-a-root-cause-of-our-childrens-deaths?cid=exrss-Chicago-Public-Education-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-3865-Chicago-Public-Education-Examiner~y2009m10d6-President-Obama-proves-he-is-just-as-smart-as-Arne-Duncan?cid=exrss-Chicago-Public-Education-Examiner   When a guy gets to be president without ever having accomplished anything and that same guy becomes a world-wide Icon by virtue of his teleprompter skills, you gotta assume that he’s a pretty smart guy.  After all, he did go to... Government Intervention Arne Duncan Tue, 06 Oct 2009 00:27:19 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-3865-Chicago-Public-Education-Examiner~y2009m10d6-President-Obama-proves-he-is-just-as-smart-as-Arne-Duncan?cid=exrss-Chicago-Public-Education-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-3865-Chicago-Public-Education-Examiner~y2009m10d1-Hubermans-school-violence-plan-is-too-naive-for-us-and-too-late-for-him?cid=exrss-Chicago-Public-Education-Examiner  Three weeks before Derrion Albert was beaten to death by people he likely knew, Chicago Public Schools (CPS) CEO, Ron Huberman, launched an anti-violence plan on paper.  Apparently, the statistically driven Huberman has profiled the 200 hi... Government Intervention Ron Huberman Thu, 01 Oct 2009 22:53:05 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-3865-Chicago-Public-Education-Examiner~y2009m10d1-Hubermans-school-violence-plan-is-too-naive-for-us-and-too-late-for-him?cid=exrss-Chicago-Public-Education-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-3865-Chicago-Public-Education-Examiner~y2009m9d29-Death-at-Fenger-High-School-may-be-the-new-Emmet-Till-moment?cid=exrss-Chicago-Public-Education-Examiner   When Emmett Till was murdered in Mississippi in 1955, the ghastly photographs of his mutilated corpse in Jet Magazine launched the Civil Rights Movement in Chicago.  My sense of history tells me the video tape of the beat-down death ... Family Factor Government Intervention Tue, 29 Sep 2009 05:50:23 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-3865-Chicago-Public-Education-Examiner~y2009m9d29-Death-at-Fenger-High-School-may-be-the-new-Emmet-Till-moment?cid=exrss-Chicago-Public-Education-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-3865-Chicago-Public-Education-Examiner~y2009m9d28-A-Fenger-High-School-death-fast-food-mentality-and-black-denial?cid=exrss-Chicago-Public-Education-Examiner  By now the entire planet is aware of the tragic and brutal death of six-teen year old Derrion Albert, and most of it has seen the raw video of the people who killed him. The stark images captured by an amateur photographer now enshrined on the ... Family Factor Mon, 28 Sep 2009 11:45:19 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-3865-Chicago-Public-Education-Examiner~y2009m9d28-A-Fenger-High-School-death-fast-food-mentality-and-black-denial?cid=exrss-Chicago-Public-Education-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-3865-Chicago-Public-Education-Examiner~y2009m9d27-Chicagos-School-Desegregation-Decree-and-Bogan-vs-Harlan-High-School-1963?cid=exrss-Chicago-Public-Education-Examiner Mayors Richard J. and M. Daley  It was halftime at Gately Stadium on a sunny afternoon in September of 1963, just about two months before President Jack Kennedy would be assassinated in Dallas.  We were playing Bogan High School in the open... Government Intervention Sat, 26 Sep 2009 23:14:41 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-3865-Chicago-Public-Education-Examiner~y2009m9d27-Chicagos-School-Desegregation-Decree-and-Bogan-vs-Harlan-High-School-1963?cid=exrss-Chicago-Public-Education-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-3865-Chicago-Public-Education-Examiner~y2009m9d24-Obama-and-Duncan-waste-our-money-pursuing-universal-college-admittance?cid=exrss-Chicago-Public-Education-Examiner  Arne Duncan may not know anything about schools, but he surely sounded like a real educator when he made this absurd statement:  ‘We are still waiting for the day when every child in America has a high-quality education that prepares... School Reform Government Intervention Thu, 24 Sep 2009 00:20:24 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-3865-Chicago-Public-Education-Examiner~y2009m9d24-Obama-and-Duncan-waste-our-money-pursuing-universal-college-admittance?cid=exrss-Chicago-Public-Education-Examiner