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- 1From:The FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin (Vol. 65, Issue 7)The FBI's Chicago Field Office and the Police Dept. of Chicago, IL, mounted Operation REACT to jointly address drug-related violence and gang warfare in the city's third and fourth police districts. The task force, which...
- 2From:Curriculum Administrator (Vol. 37, Issue 5)This Chicago school overcame a highly publicized cheating scandal to rise above everyone's academic expectations. When in 1995, Chicago's Steinmetz High School upset nine-time champion Whitney Young Magnet High...
- 3From:Education Next (Vol. 3, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIN THE 1980s, site-based management was one of the hottest theories in education. The idea was to drive budget authority and decision-making power down to the school level, allowing those in the trenches to respond to...
- 4From:Building Design & Construction (Vol. 41, Issue 5)Chicago's Shakespeare Theater borrows 16th-century solution for small waterfront site Waterfront theater is nothing new to Shakespearean drama. The Globe Theatre, where many of the great playwright's works first...
- 5From:American Educational History Journal (Vol. 41, Issue 1-2) Peer-ReviewedFor more than forty years, parents, teachers, veterans, and community activists have engaged in grassroots resistance to the military's presence in schools. Currently consisting of around seventy-five local groups, the...
- 6From:Education Next (Vol. 14, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedWhen former U.S. congressman and Obama administration chief of stat Rahm Emanuel marched triumphantly into the Chicago mayor's office in 2011, he promised to revamp Chicago Public Schools (CPS) in ways that had barely...
- 7From:American Libraries (Vol. 29, Issue 2)The Chicago Police Dept. and Chicago Public Library have forged a unique collaboration for the benefit of children. The most popular program created by such a partnership is the Mystery Beat Book Club where policemen...
- 8From:Building Design & ConstructionUnderground parking garage includes a spot for train exhibit A new $47.7 million, 500,000-sq.-ft. below-grade parking structure has allowed Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry to turn back the clock -- and...
- 9From:Scholastic Teacher (Vol. 127, Issue 3)When was the last time a Grammy winner crashed your coding class? The fifth graders at Chicago's Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Paideia Academy were participating in a Google coding workshop when, to their surprise, Chance the...
- 10From:International Journal of Economic Development (Vol. 2, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedAbstract In the transition of governance arrangements in the Chicago Public Schools, several concerns arose regarding the new system=s effectiveness in addressing complex challenges facing the schools. This study...
- 11From:District Administration (Vol. 43, Issue 1)Chicago Public Schools' teacher incentive fund, linking teachers' pay to improved student test scores, beginning fall 2007, will be among the nation's biggest merit pay systems. It's the first time the district has...
- 12From:AFT On Campus (Vol. 32, Issue 5)IL Thousands rallied and marched on March 27 in opposition to a Chicago Public Schools and mayor's office plan for mass school closings. Organized by the Chicago Teachers Union, UNITE HERE Local 1, SEIU Local 1 and the...
- 13From:Architecture (Vol. 91, Issue 1)SITE: A 3-acre parcel on the Near West Side of Chicago, in the middle of the ABLA community, a 95-acre complex of four distinct public housing developments built between 1937 and 1962. The site is located north of the...
- 14From:Education Next (Vol. 14, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedWhen former U.S. congressman and Obama administration chief of staf Rahm Emanuel marched triumphantly into the Chicago mayor's office in 2011, he promised to revamp Chicago Public Schools (CPS) in ways that had barely...
- 15From:Public Employee Advocate (Vol. 32, Issue 2)After going on strike for the first time in 25 years, the Chicago Teachers Union House of Delegates voted to suspend the one-week strike on Sept. 18, following an extensive discussion of the proposed tentative...
- 16From:Architecture (Vol. 91, Issue 3)HOUSING For most American architects, as lot most Chicago residents, the Robert Taylor Homes conjure up the worst of public housing: an unrelenting wasteland of brutal buildings and broken lives. This city within o city...
- 17From:American Libraries (Vol. 18)Trials and thrills of serving YAs on radio EXCEPT FOR THEIR MUSICALentertainment, young adults are poorly served by radio. Some stations have children's programs, but few broadcasts are aimed at the 12-to-18 age...
- 18From:University Business (Vol. 13, Issue 3)The 32-story, glass exterior skyscraper--to feature an undulating shape, Lake Michigan views, and four connections to the Auditorium Building--will be the second tallest U.S. university building. Roosevelt's enrollment...
- 19From:Architecture (Vol. 90, Issue 11)Three Chicago schools have announced plans to join together and build what will be the largest dormitory in United States. Students from DePaul, Roosevelt, and Columbia universities will live together in the $1S0...
- 20From:Education Next (Vol. 13, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIn 2008, president-elect Barack Obama declared that preparing the nation for the 1121st-century economy" required making "math and science education a national priority." He later signed legislation that provided...