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Arts & Culture, Theater Review Jan 25, 2019
Dada Woof Papa Hot shows that modern parenthood's not just for straight people

"Isn’t being normal the most radical thing of all?" God no!
- By Dan Jakes
- Tags: Theater Review, Dada Woof Papa Hot, About Face Theatre, Jos N. Banks, Peter Parnell, Keira Fromm, LGBTQ, parents, parenting

Blogs, Bleader Sep 23, 2015
After the premature birth of their son, a Chicago couple wonders, 'How are we gonna get through this?'

New parents Annie Gromberg and Jason Rothstein on the saga of the birth of their son Jascha
- By Anne Ford
- Tags: Chicagoans, Chicagoans, Anne Ford, Jason Rothstein, Annie Gomberg, parents, Jascha

Columns & Opinion, On Politics Feb 25, 2014
Mayor Emanuel sends the marines into Ames Middle School

Politicians move forward with their plan to convert the neighborhood school into a military academy.
- By Ben Joravsky
- Tags: Ben Joravsky on Politics, Rahm Emanuel, Ames Middle School, military academies, schools, CPS, Chicago Public Schools, 26th Ward, Roberto Maldonado, Mark Brown, Chicago Sun-Times, Marine Math and Science Academy, Logan Square, parents, Richard M. Daley, Emma Segura, Local school councils, LSC, Logan Square Neighborhood Association, Board of Education, David Vitale, Marine Leadership Academy at Ames, City Council, neighborhood schools, TIFs, tax increment financing, 1st Ward, Proco Joe Moreno, Eddie Reyes, William Delgado, Walter "Slim" Coleman, school closings

Music, Music Feature Jan 20, 2014
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Would you let your children listen to Justin Roberts?

The Chicago kids' musician is up for a Grammy this weekend, so the Reader asked seven local rock parents what they think of his latest album.
- By Leor Galil
- Tags: Music Feature, Justin Roberts, Grammys, Best Children's Album, Pimentos for Gus, Step by Step Montessori, University of Chicago, University of Chicago Divinity School, Not Ready for Naptime Players, Grammy nominations, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Poi Dog Pondering, Kelly Argyle, Lars Makie, Girl Group Chicago, Dave Winer, Lobstar, Bobby Conn, Julie Pomerleau, Pelican, Trevor Shelley de Brauw, Lisa Shelley de Brauw, Let's Pet, Jim Magas, Bridgette Wilson, Good Points, Paul John Higgins, Chicago Reader, Jennifer Higgins, Radar Eyes, Shelley Zawadzki, children, kids, parents, Video

Columns & Opinion, On Politics Dec 31, 2013
Rahm creates a process to endorse his plan for more charter schools

Advisory council signs off on two more nonunion schools on the northwest side.
- By Ben Joravsky
- Tags: On Politics, Board of Education, Bruce Rauner, charter school advocates, charter schools, Chicago Public Schools, community meetings, CPS, Intrinsic, Juan Jose Gonzalez, Karen Lewis, labor unions, Melissa Zaikos, New Schools for Chicago, Noble, parents, Prosser High School, Rahm Emanuel, Rhonda Kochlefl, Stand for Children, teachers, transparency, unions, United Neighborhood Organization, UNO

News & Politics, Feature Sep 24, 2013
Three families tell us why they ditched CPS

Why is the Chicago public school enrollment overwhelmingly low-income? Because when push comes to shove, the city's middle-class parents often shove off for the suburbs.
- By Steve Bogira
- Tags: Feature, Poverty and segregation in Chicago schools, Chicago Public Schools, CPS, school performance, low-income school enrollments, Program for International Student Assessment, poverty, parents, middle class parents, private school, suburbs, peer effects, magnet schools, Edison Regional Gifted Center, Alexander Graham Bell Elementary School, Stephen Decatur Classical Elementary School, Franklin Elementary Fine Arts Center, Suder Montessori Magnet ES, Mark T. Skinner North Elementary School, Mark T. Skinner West Elementary School, Phillip Murray Elementary Language Academy, Hawthorne Elementary Scholastic Academy, Walter Payton College Preparatory High School, Whitney M Young Magnet High School, Northside College Preparatory High School, Robert Lindblom Math & Science Academy, William Jones College Preparatory High School, Albert G Lane Technical High School, Lane Tech, Sue Serra, Sandro Serra, North Park, neighborhoods, Vernon Hills, Illinois, Lake County, Bucktown, Mary Gage Peterson Elementary School, PTA, Parent Teacher Association, segregation, registered sex offenders, guns, Stephen T. Mather High School, ACT, graduation rates, selective-enrollment schools, neighborhood schools, taxes, education funding, Ryan Zoghlin, Melissa Moore, Wilmette, Illinois, New Trier High School, Wilmette Junior High, Pulaski International School of Chicago, Augustus H Burley Elementary School, Lake View High School commuting, standardized testing, Metra, guilt, safety, Jackie Strapp, Aurora, Illinois, Johnny Strapp, Rogers Park, East Rogers Park, North Riverside, Illinois, Roberto Clemente Community Academy High School, STEM program, Stephen F. Gale Elementary Community Academy, Batavia, Illinois, economic diversity, racial diversity, ethnic diversity

News & Politics, Feature Jun 26, 2013
School dismissed for a beloved security guard

Kelvyn Cockrell started going to Henson elementary at age six, and he never stopped. But now that the school is among 50 closed by CPS, he'll have to.
- By Steve Bogira
- Tags: Feature, CPS, Chicago Public Schools, school closings, Henson Elementary School, Kelvyn Cockrell, security guards, North Lawndale, charter schools, Matthew Henson Elementary, neighborhoods, poverty, last day of school, elementary schools, school support staff, parents, teachers, school administrators, Kahinde Longmire, Mia Bonds, Bernadette Shields, special education, Demetrius Hobson, chants, picnics, principals, Joanne Bradley, basketball, coaches, gangs

Best of Chicago, City Life Jun 19, 2013
Critics' Picks
Best Community Organization

Southwest Organizing Project
- By Steve Bogira
- Tags: City Life, SWOP, Southwest Organizing Project, CeaseFire, MacArthur Foundation, grants, neighborhoods, vacant properties, schools, parents, Chicago Lawn, foreclosures, Critics' Picks

News & Politics, Feature Jun 13, 2013
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Trying to make separate equal

Having failed at desegregation, Chicago has tried instead to provide quality education in poor, racially isolated schools. That hasn’t worked either.
- By Steve Bogira
- Tags: Feature, poverty, books, segregation, inequality, desegregation, Poverty and segregation in Chicago schools, education, race, Melville Fuller, suburbs, expressways, City Council, Herold Hunt, history, 1963, 1964, Benjamin Willis, Chicago Times, Columbia University, Kathryn Neckerman, 1863, teachers, West Garfield Park, neighborhoods, Illinois General Assembly, Penny Sebring, law, Nancy Hanks, magnet schools, newspapers, school integration, parents, school closing, school consolidation, CPS, diversity, Chicago Urban League, James Compton, Chicago Public Schools, HEW, U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, busing, U.S. Department of Justice, Colored School law, Chicago Board of Education, school utilization, Equity and Excellence Commission, Brown v. Board of Education, 1954, Melody Elementary School, 1888, U.S. Supreme Court, Julius Hoffman, 1961, de jure segregation, de facto segregation, Annette Gurley, CTU, Chicago Teachers Union, Chicago Housing Authority, CHA, Pavlyn Jankov, Karen Lewis, University of Chicago, Consortium on Chicago School Research, Audio

Columns & Opinion, On Politics May 7, 2013
The school model that's good enough for President Obama and Mayor Emanuel

The prestigious University of Chicago Lab Schools respect and reward teachers—so why can't the public schools?
- By Ben Joravsky
- Tags: On Politics, academic freedom, Allison Bates, American Federation of Teachers, Arne Duncan, Barack Obama, Chicago Public Schools, Chicago Teachers Union, class size, classroom evaluations, CPS, curriculum, education, Faculty Administration, Hyde Park High School, International Baccalaureate, Karen Lewis, labor, labor unions, Lincoln Park High School, longer school day, parents, peer review, Persepolis, Persepolisgate, Rahm Emanuel, Richard M. Daley, Robert Zimmer, school governance, school principals, schools, Senn High School, Taft High School, teacher evaluations, teachers, teaching, unions, University of Chicago Lab Schools

Film, Small Screen Apr 25, 2013
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Children for fun and profit on ABC's new Bet on Your Baby

On the next million-dollar baby
- By Gwynedd Stuart
- Tags: Small Screen, television, Melissa Peterman, tv, Splash!, kids, baby names, Facebook, narcissism, Kids Say the Darndest Things, Bet on Your Baby, game shows, hidden cameras, ABC, parents

Columns & Opinion, On Politics Apr 2, 2013
Mayor Emanuel's crowded-classroom approach to fixing schools

How the school "consolidation" plan could make teaching and learning even harder.
- By Ben Joravsky
- Tags: On Politics, Rahm Emanuel, CPS, Barbara Byrd-Bennett, special education, Chicago Public Schools, schools, special education, school closings, Dever Elemteray School, Dunning, Kerry Murphy, Tilly Tremmel, school consolidation, teachers, parents, longer school day, Richard M. Daley, William Banks, school libraries, libraries, school utilizaton, neighborhoods

Columns & Opinion, On Politics Feb 14, 2013
Good luck finding the documents that explain CPS's longer school day

Conclusions to draw from a yearlong Freedom of Information Act battle between the Chicago Public Schools and Glenn Krell, an intrepid north-side parent.
- By Ben Joravsky
- Tags: Ben Joravsky on Politics, Rahm Emanuel, Mayor Emanuel, Chicago Public Schools, CPS, teachers, teachers' strike, Freedom of Information Act, FOIA, Jean-Claude Brizard, Glenn Krell, parents, longer school day, decision-making, Arne Duncan, Lisa Madigan, Illinois attorney general, Sara Gadola Gallagher

Blogs, Bleader Jul 11, 2011
Who gets up when the baby cries?
- By Steve Bogira
- Tags: The Sexist, Sarah A. Burgard, University of Michigan, American Time Use Survey, U.S. Census Bureau, parents, working parents, sex disparities, sleep, sleep interruptions, breastfeeding, sociology, Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook, New Yorker, Ken Auletta, Google

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Dada Woof Papa Hot shows that modern parenthood's not just for straight people

"Isn’t being normal the most radical thing of all?" God no!

After the premature birth of their son, a Chicago couple wonders, 'How are we gonna get through this?'

New parents Annie Gromberg and Jason Rothstein on the saga of the birth of their son Jascha

Mayor Emanuel sends the marines into Ames Middle School

Politicians move forward with their plan to convert the neighborhood school into a military academy.

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Would you let your children listen to Justin Roberts?

The Chicago kids' musician is up for a Grammy this weekend, so the Reader asked seven local rock parents what they think of his latest album.

Rahm creates a process to endorse his plan for more charter schools

Advisory council signs off on two more nonunion schools on the northwest side.

Three families tell us why they ditched CPS

Why is the Chicago public school enrollment overwhelmingly low-income? Because when push comes to shove, the city's middle-class parents often shove off for the suburbs.

School dismissed for a beloved security guard

Kelvyn Cockrell started going to Henson elementary at age six, and he never stopped. But now that the school is among 50 closed by CPS, he'll have to.

Critics' Picks
Best Community Organization

Southwest Organizing Project

Audio
Trying to make separate equal

Having failed at desegregation, Chicago has tried instead to provide quality education in poor, racially isolated schools. That hasn’t worked either.

The school model that's good enough for President Obama and Mayor Emanuel

The prestigious University of Chicago Lab Schools respect and reward teachers—so why can't the public schools?

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Children for fun and profit on ABC's new Bet on Your Baby

On the next million-dollar baby

Mayor Emanuel's crowded-classroom approach to fixing schools

How the school "consolidation" plan could make teaching and learning even harder.

Good luck finding the documents that explain CPS's longer school day

Conclusions to draw from a yearlong Freedom of Information Act battle between the Chicago Public Schools and Glenn Krell, an intrepid north-side parent.

Who gets up when the baby cries?

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"Isn’t being normal the most radical thing of all?" God no!

New parents Annie Gromberg and Jason Rothstein on the saga of the birth of their son Jascha

Politicians move forward with their plan to convert the neighborhood school into a military academy.

The Chicago kids' musician is up for a Grammy this weekend, so the Reader asked seven local rock parents what they think of his latest album.

Advisory council signs off on two more nonunion schools on the northwest side.

Why is the Chicago public school enrollment overwhelmingly low-income? Because when push comes to shove, the city's middle-class parents often shove off for the suburbs.

Kelvyn Cockrell started going to Henson elementary at age six, and he never stopped. But now that the school is among 50 closed by CPS, he'll have to.

Southwest Organizing Project

Having failed at desegregation, Chicago has tried instead to provide quality education in poor, racially isolated schools. That hasn’t worked either.

The prestigious University of Chicago Lab Schools respect and reward teachers—so why can't the public schools?

On the next million-dollar baby

How the school "consolidation" plan could make teaching and learning even harder.

Conclusions to draw from a yearlong Freedom of Information Act battle between the Chicago Public Schools and Glenn Krell, an intrepid north-side parent.

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