Chicago Public Schools, one of the largest school systems in the country, is reporting academic improvement in spite of past troubles. Now city leaders are looking to new CEO Janice Jackson to keep things moving forward. Special correspondent Kavitha Cardoza of...
Amidst a lot of dreary education news, a quietly released study from last fall revealed a surprising bright spot: From 2009 to 2014, Chicago public school students, on average, learned more between third and eighth grade than did their peers across the United States....
Cohort 2 superstar, Janice Jackson EdD, is approved as the next CEO of the Chicago Public Schools. She identifies three commitments in her first public comments to the Board of Education. Read the full story here.
Chicago Tonight interviews Cohort 10 alum, Michael Abello, EdD, princpal of Piccolo School of Excellence, a “turnaround” school who is turning heads with the success of his Level 1+ school. Click here to watch the video.
The New York Times focuses it’s story on research done by Stanford researcher Sean Reardon on the incredible growth that CPS students have done from 3rd grade to 8th grade. Read the full story here.
The UIC College of Education’s Department of Educational Policy Studies continues to move upward in the US News and World Report Rankings for Educational Administration. The department broke into the top 20 four years ago and has steadily improved its ranking to #14...
Steve Tozer, PhD, director of the Center for Urban Education Leadership and professor of educational policy studies at the UIC College of Education, was featured in Education Week analyzing higher education’s capacity to produce principals that transform urban...
At a panel discussion on teacher leadership, principal Joe Shoffner, EdD Urban Education Leadership ’16, describes strategies for crafting a school environment that cares for the whole student:
In the age of fiscal austerity, urban school principals face impossible choices. For principal Allison Tingwall at Curie Metropolitan High School, one choice she refused to make in the face of budget cuts was to reduce or eliminate arts programming at the school....
Statistics on racial discrepancies in school discipline are well-known. At Sayre Elementary in Chicago, EdD Urban Education Leadership student and principal Folasade Adekunle argues challenges with student behavior are a school culture issue, not a problem with...
