Felicia Rose Chavez’s book challenges how educational institutions support people of color—and provides a blueprint to be better.
Tag: education
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Inside the fight for racial equity at SAIC
Current and former students, staff, and faculty at the top-ranked art school describe microaggressions, discrimination, and a failed anti-racism campaign.
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Ode to a Chicago Public School
The lessons learned in CPS go beyond what’s taught in the classroom.
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‘This is a moment of empowerment’: An oral history of the People’s Grab-N-Go
A retrospective look at the weekly Black-led food distribution program outside Burke Elementary.
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Rebuild Foundation and Sunshine Enterprise team up to train city’s creative entrepreneurs
The Arts & Makers Community Business Academy is ramping up to launch its third cohort in September.
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U.S. Department of Education wants to stop ‘student aid fraud scheme’ where parents give up custody through dubious guardianships
One day after our reporting, the department’s inspector general said it wants to close financial aid loopholes.
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Pipeline examines the opposite of white privilege
For some kids, the path to prison starts with just one bad day or one microaggression too far.
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In Nilaja Sun’s No Child … a teacher and her students discover the magic of theater
Unfortunately, the characters lack the depth to make that transformation visible.
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CPS closed Stewart Elementary School in 2013. Now it’s a luxury apartment building.
A former student goes back to visit.
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The roving live talk show The Hoodoisie makes radical politics entertaining and accessible
If the world can be saved, host Ricardo Gamboa believes it will be through open dialogue and dirty jokes.
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Springfield’s ongoing feuding with CPS could stop funding for other Illinois schools if a deal isn’t reached soon, and other Chicago news
Also, an audit shows that Chicago’s pension crisis has gotten worse but the city has more cash.
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Photo book Too Fly Not to Fly celebrates #blackgirlmagic and #blackboyjoy
With Too Fly Not To Fly, educators Briana McLean and Desmond Owusu have created a learning tool that also captures the joy of black childhood in Chicago.
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‘Art Design Chicago’ aims to explore the ‘undiscovered stories in Chicago art’ through exhibits, public programs in 2018, and other news
Also, many local “‘Dreamers” are facing a very tough decision if their parents are deported.
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Police union president is ‘certain’ Trump will help reduce gun violence in Chicago, and other news
Also, Jesus “Chuy” Garcia suggests that Mayor Rahm Emanuel is using the sanctuary city issue to win Latino votes.