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1. Kate N. Grossman
Published: 04:00 AM Jan 1,2001  
Kate N. Grossman is deputy editorial page editor. Her series on school violence, Calming our Classrooms, won a National Education Writers Association opinion ...

2. Doubts emerge in school experiment
Published: 04:00 AM Jul 21,2006  
Joslyn Jones, Amare's mom, rushes into the school's first family "literacy night" Nov. 10, nearly an hour late. Donoghue wants parents and kids in the building around the clock, and Jones is committed to being there, even if means fighting rush-hour t...

3. Grading the school year
Published: 04:00 AM Jul 21,2006  
By March, there's a new problem in Natalie Brady's third-grade classroom at the University of Chicago Charter School ? which has set a daunting goal of trying to teach a mix of poor and middle-class kids. Even students once reliably good have started ...

4. One classroom, many classes
Published: 04:00 AM Jul 21,2006  
Can one person, asked to teach both poor and middle-class kids in one public school classroom, produce results for everyone? Last school year, third-grade teacher Natalie Brady gave it a shot. She helped launch the Donoghue campus of the Universi...

5. Tutoring gives students a boost
Published: 04:00 AM Nov 9,2005  
On a recent Tuesday, 10-year-old Carleathea Dixon sat before a laptop at Dolton's Franklin School for after-school tutoring. At 2:45 p.m., the start of the session, distinguishing a statement from a command was beyond her. But by 3:15 p.m., after a le...

6. Relaxed standards part of reason for better scores
Published: 04:00 AM Nov 9,2005  
When the state first released test results this summer, it looked as if more schools and districts had met federal testing goals than last year. But relaxed state standards this year, not necessarily better performance, account for some of that growth, new...

7. Dividing big schools a winning equation
Published: 04:00 AM Nov 9,2005  
Tucked into the corner of a massive brick school building in South Chicago, BEST High hums with the unique sounds of a small school. There's no chaos as small groups head into class. When teaching begins, hallways are nearly silent. "Come on Brittney,...

8. 'Homicide'
Published: 04:00 AM Feb 13,2007  
It was near midnight Saturday when Nicole Tope noticed several people in the garage of her neighbor's home in west suburban Montgomery. She thought nothing of it. Until Sunday morning. By then, police were swarming the gray frame house. In cl...

9. CPS pushes 1st-day attendance
Published: 04:00 AM Aug 20,2007  
Chicago Schools CEO Arne Duncan hit seven church pulpits Sunday to preach a simple message: Kids should be at school for the first day, on time, ready to learn. "School starts when?" Duncan asked families gathered at Mount Vernon Baptist Church in Eas...

10. Public Keller, Lenart sole members of '100 percent' club
Published: 04:00 AM Nov 9,2005  
To recall a recent weekend's worth of homework assignments, 14-year-old Anali Vargas had to crack open a day planner most adults would fear. She found it under a stack of books she totes around Keller, a Chicago public school for gifted children. "Let...

11. Driver of 8 charged with DUI after 4 die
Published: 04:00 AM Feb 12,2007  
One car. Eight kids. Four dead. How could it happen? The answer: Police say the 23-year-old driver, Sandra Vasquez, was drunk when she plowed her 2001 Infiniti crammed with teens into a utility pole in Oswego yesterday morning. ?If you hung out with them one day, you loved them,? said one friend.

12. Chicago students' achievement gap
Published: 12:01 AM Nov 1,2007  
At Hyde Park Academy, a neighborhood high school serving black, mostly low-income students, reading scores have dropped dramatically over the last five years. At the same time, at Payton, a selective public high school that is 40 percent white and 30 percent poor, scores have gone through the roof.

13. Left behind
Published: 12:01 AM Oct 31,2007  
The test score gap between white and minority students in the Chicago public high schools has gotten worse over the last five years, the Chicago Sun-Times has found, inflaming critics who say CPS is shortchanging its neediest kids. "The most vul...

14. New approach paying off at Dodge
Published: 04:00 AM Mar 6,2007  
The goal: Explain dramatic irony to a roomful of seventh graders at Chicago's Dodge Renaissance Academy. The result: in one ear, out the other. Were she at another school, language arts teacher Karla Kemp probably would have moved ...

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