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High Stakes Testing: The new child labor
“Exploited without regard to their tender years, countless youngsters were working under conditions constantly fraught with danger to life and limb…The blight of child labor was widely prevalent, in...
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School turnarounds : Turning against racial justice
The Chicago Public Schools (CPS) leadership is doing exactly the opposite of what both community activists and researchers have shown to be the most effective ways of improving public schools. School...
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Fight for $15 in Chicago: Revolt in a Global City
“I am here to remind America that it is a crime to live in this great nation and to receive starvation wages. At McDonalds $8.25 an hour, what I make is about $400 every two weeks. With that salary I...
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Brown v. Board Of Education at 60: Where is the compliance?
“The night the 1954 Brown decision to desegregate schools was announced, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund threw a party. Future Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, who had worked on the case was...
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Chicagoans prepare to take back their city
"Imagine what a community would look like that you and your children deserve and what are you willing to do to bring that to fruition."-----Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) activist Tara Stamps Chicago...
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