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CHICAGO MATTERS: Education Matters
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Welcome
to Chicago Matters: Education Matters by Johanna Zorn
Linda Lenz
– Publisher and editor of Catalyst:
Voices of Chicago School Reform: 312.427.4830
Teaching
Reading by Robbie Harris
Professor Timothy
Shanahan – Director of the Center for Literacy at University of Illinois
at Chicago
Karl Androes
– A founder and executive director of Whirlwind:
Basic Skills Through the Arts
Choosing
a School
by Heidi Goldfein
Paul Teske – Professor of Political Science at State University of
New York, Stonybrook and a co-author of the new book, Choosing Schools:
Consumer Choice and the Quality of American Schools. (Princeton University
Press)
Other background information:
Choosing Excellence by John Merrow. It's a book for parents as
they contemplate how to choose the best school for their child.
Which
Schools Get the Best Teachers? by David Schaper
Bob Leininger – Former Illinois State Schools Superintendent, currently
chairman of Governor George Ryan's school funding advisory board. He can
be reached, and the Advisory Board's reports can be obtained, through
the Illinois State Board
of Education.
Richard Laine
– Education director for the Illinois
Business Roundtable: 312.707.9730
Teach
for America by Tony Sarabia
Teach for America,
Chicago Office: 312.421.9209
The
Changing Role of School Principals by Ed Janus
James Spillane
– Northwestern University
Fred Hess – Northwestern University's Department of Education and
Social Policy: 847.491.3713
Dr. Barbara Eason-Watkins and her staff at McCosh Elementary – School
phone: 773.535.0560
Logan
Square Parent Mentorship Program by Linda Paul
Logan Square Neighborhood Association: 773.384.4370
Inclusion
at a Chicago Public High School by Jodie Becker
Sue Gamm – Director of Specialized Services for Chicago Public Schools
773.553.1800
Autism
Research Institute – Phone: 619.281.7165, Fax: 619.563.6840
Autism
Family Village
Spanish
Immersion Program in Evanston by Yolanda Perdomo
Dr. Hard Murphy – Superintendent of Evanston School District 65.
He can be reached through Marshall Rosenthall, the district's pubic information
officer at 847.492.5861.
Lyda Enriquez – District 65's Curriculm coordinator for Bilingual/ESL
programs: 847.492.7233
Melissa Wolfe – Program Coordinator for District 112, Highland Park:
847.681.6700 x233
Marjorie Faulstich Orellana – Assistant Professor at Northwestern
University's School of Education and Social Policy: 847.467.2352
Washington School in Evanston, one of two schools piloting Dual Language
Program in District 65: 847.492.7974
The
Future of Desegregation by Shirley Jahad
Baroko Bama
– State lawmaker
Reverend Steve
Bland
Gary Orfield
Gery Chico
– Former CPS School Board President
Home
Schooling by Hillary Frank
Illinois
HOUSE (Home Oriented Unique Schooling Experience), the largest secular
homeschooling support system in the midwest – The main contact for
HOUSE (and also for any religious groups) is Dorothy Werner: 773.338.8330
More specific
branches of HOUSE:
Oak Park –
Alice Muciek: 708.383.3877
Evanston –
Nancy Guenther: 847.675.3632
Hyde Park –
Cathryn Baker: bcathryn@netscape.net
Tests,
What do They Teach Us? by David Schaper
Fred Hess – Director of the Center for Urban School Policy at Northwestern
University: 847.491.3713 or 847.467.4554
Cozette Buckney – Chief Education Officer for the Chicago Public
Schools, contact her through the CPS office of communications: 773.553.1620
Beverly Tunney – From the Chicago Principals Association: 312.263.7767
Roger Schank – Critic of standardized testing, author of Coloring
Outside the Lines: Raising Smarter kids by Breaking All the Rules,
his publicist is in New York: 212.515.4488
Susan Ohanian – Critic of testing and author of One Size Fits
None: 301.718.3770.
The Illinois
State Board of Education's public relations contacts – Lee Milner
and Kim Knauer in Springfield (217.782.4648) and Wade Nelson in Chicago
(312.814.2220)
Teaching
Global Studies by Andrea Wenzel
John Long – Assistant Professor at UIC, coordinator of the Berlin
Study Visit Program, co-founder of the German Studies Consortium (introduces
German programs into public elementary schools), director of UIC's Office
of TRIO programs (7 federally funded educational programs that help low-income
and first generation students obtain college education's): 312.355.3238
Ann Marie Ryan – Teaches social studies methods, former teacher,
formerly involved with organization Facing History and Ourselves: 312.413.0326
Mae Coen – Retired social studies teacher, currently coordinating
Global Classrooms Pilot for CPS: 773.935.5674
Greg Michie – Teacher at Seward Middle School, author of Holler
if You Hear Me: The education of a teacher and his students, currently
a PhD candidate, his dissertation is Voices of Young Teachers of Color:
773.523.3937
Michelle Carlson – Teaches World Cultures at Kelly High School, michcarlson@hotmail.com
Robin Gonzalez – Teaches World Studies at Kelly High School
Cosette Buckney – CPS Chief Education Officer
Paul A. Buelow, Ph.D. – Teaches social studies pre-service teachers:
312.996.5471 or pab@uic.edu
Susan Ledin – Teaches ethnic cultures and world studies at Bogan
High School:
773.535.2180
Bill Ayers – Professor at UIC, editor of Teaching for Social Justice
Series:
312.996.9689
Jeff Kuzmic – Professor of education at DePaul, involved with the
National Council for the Social Studies, 773.325.1669
Dimitria Iazzetto
– Teaches a course called Dimensions in Multicultural education that
sends students to some of the most multicultural schools in the area at
Associated Colleges in the Midwest's Urban Education Program (located
in St. Edith's Parish Convent around Bryn Mawr and Foster): 773.561.6606
College
Bound by Cecilia Vaisman
The Posse Foundation
– 312-360-0600
Learning
to Live: James' Story by Dan Collison
St. Leonard's House: 312.738.1414.
Chameleon
Days:
Documentary on Latinos at Wheeling High School by Julia McEvoy
Overlooked and Underserved: Immigrant Students in U.S. Secondary Schools
by Jorge Ruiz-de-Velasco & Michael Fix, Dec. 2000, Urban
Institute. Ruiz-de-Velasco's phone number is 202.261.5626. Urban Institute
phone is 202.261.5709.
The Education
Trust Study on Student Achievement, published in 2000. For more information,
contact Katie Haycock: 202.293.1217 or Khaycock@edtrust.org
New Immigrants
in Chicago Suburbs:
1990-1996, Prepared for the Fund for Immigrants and Refugees by Rob Peral,
August 2000. Rob Peral's phone number is 773.463.6041.
Are America's
Schools Leaving Latinas Behind? Report released by the American Association
of University Women (AAUW)
Educational Foundation.
Hispanic Drop
Out Project. No More Excuses, The final report of the Hispanic dropout
project, February 1998. Report is available from the website www.ncbe.gwu.edu
Transitional Bilingual
Education and Transitional Program of Instruction Evaluation Report,
fiscal year 2000, Illinois State Board of Education research division,
published in December 2000.
Emma Violand-Sanchez
– An ESL coordinator who's active in the Minority Achievement Network:
703.228.6095
Xavier Botano –
State Board of Bilingual Education Unit head: 312.814.3850 or Xbotana@isbe.net
Steve Scaise –
Contact person for access to State Board of Education data: 217.782.3950
or www.isbe.state.il.us
Don Seviner –
Contact person for access to State Board of Higher Education data: 217.557.7300
Marilynn Kulieke
– Contact for information on IACT and "Plan" test data
for ALL WHS students and Hispanics, comparing the performance of Hispanics
to all students on the IACT and Plan: 847.718.7664
Dr. Elizabeth Ennis
– Superintendent of District 214: 847.718.7601
Patricio Munoz –
Omni Youth Organization: 847.459.9315 or Pmunoz@omniyouth.org
John Hammond –
College counselor for Wheeling High School: 847.718.7045
Jim Harbo –
Director of young adult evening school in Wheeling: 847.655.3155
Bob Connelly –
Has information on "Pathway," a young adult evening program
and knows the history of Wheeling: 847.718.5787
Jim Palos –
Has information on Project Impact, the governor's study on drop out data
and plans in state: 312.738.8301
A
Week in the Life of Perspectives Charter School by Alexis Gillespie
Perspectives
Charter School:
1532 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago, Il. 60605
Diana Shulla, Co-Director
Kkim Day, Co-Director
312.431.8770, Phone
312.431.8843, Fax
Greg Richmond
– Contact person at CPS's Charter Schools Office: 773.553.1535 or
grichmond@csc.cps.k12.il.us
John Ayers
– Contact person at Leadership for Quality Education: 312.853.1206
or jayers@lqe.org
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