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Helping Young Men that Have Fallen through the Cracks. A group of Chicago South Side youths unveil this mural for a Garrett Popcorn Shop.

Helping Those that Have Fallen through the Cracks

I’m a Chicago teacher who has watched many Javions fall through the cracks. Here’s what would help. As a Chicago Public School teacher and librarian for the past 15 years, I’ve seen many students fall through the cracks. I remember the young man who sat in my class at the beginning of his senior year, eager to learn. By the […]

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Teaching Kids to Love Reading

Randall Beach | Reading is an opening to selfhood but also to citizenship David Denby (pictured
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