At Hamline Elementary in Back of the Yards, showing up and wearing masks are a snap. But can Hamline pinpoint students’ academic holes and fill them?
Could 100,000+ CPS Students Drop Out?
After a full year of pandemic schooling, data show that nearly a third of CPS students could become truant. Truancy–lateness, skipping school, cutting class–is the top of the slippery slope that leads to dropping out.
Back to School at Richards HS
Chicago Unheard will be checking in with Richards High School students and staff as the new school year unfolds. Here are some thoughts from students on going back.
Summertime = Time to Relax While Learning and Having Fun
While summer of 2021 isn’t, thank God, like summer 2020, it still isn’t the “normal” summer that I’m used to. And, this summer, schools around the country are focused on finding ways to re-engage families and students and addressing learning losses many children have sustained after nearly two school years of remote learning. For me, as a teacher and a…
Want Chicago’s Kids Back In-Person this Fall? We Must Talk to Families This Summer
CPS and individual schools must keep talking with families through the summer. Community visits and school-based meetings could reduce fears.
Black Homeschooling Parents Can Support Civil Rights in Public Schools. In Fact, They Already Did.
Black parents must continue to chart our children’s educational course ourselves.
Roseland Peace Parade on Saturday
At 1 p.m. this Saturday, Roses in Roseland will kick off its second annual Peace Parade. Registration begins at 11 a.m. at 119th and Michigan. From founder and community organizer Cleopatra Draper: Together, the people of Roseland and neighbors from all over Chicago will demand peace during the summer, promote common-sense gun reform, community investment and safety! Please join us for…
We Don’t Just Teach Our Students History; We Teach Them How To Make History
We are not critical race theorists. We are public school teachers. The push to “ban critical race theory” intends to stop us from teaching our students the truth about U.S. history in a classroom that welcomes all of who they are.