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Archive for May 17th, 2008

Teacher tales.

Posted by: preaprez on: May 17, 2008

Steppenwolf Traffic presents:
Teacher Tales: Stories from the Frontlines
Sunday, June 1, 2008 at 3:00PM
at the Steppenwolf Theater
1650 N. Halsted Street Chicago IL
YCA benefit reception follows the show.
About Teacher Tales
Sneak into the teacher’s lounge as author Dr. Robert Boone and friends provide a look at the motivational moments that define teaching for some of Chicago’s finest educators. [...]

Amber alert.

Posted by: preaprez on: May 17, 2008

The right-wing Fordham bunch is at it again.
Check out their defense of the discredited Reading First program, a center piece of the Bush administration’s school reform program.
Amber Winkler, writing in the Gadfly:
The interim evaluation of Reading First has all sorts of people upset for all manner of reasons. It found that, on average, the federal [...]

Old school.

Posted by: preaprez on: May 17, 2008

The Chi Lites.

Three over coffee.

Posted by: preaprez on: May 17, 2008

Letizia’s Natural Bakery on Chicago’s Division Street. Summer home of PREA Prez.
The long Chicago nightmare is over. Winter is done. Saturday coffee moves outdoors. No more Peets until Fall. We make our annual shift to Letizia’s Natural Bakery on Division Street where we can sit outside with the baby strollers, dogs and Eastern European guys [...]


 

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