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Now in its 16th year, Chicago's award-winning, multimedia public affairs series focuses on education in 2006. Chicago Matters: Valuing Education explores the importance—and cost—of providing a high quality public education to all of Illinois’ children. But is the opportunity to
succeed equally available to everyone?
Chicago Matters examines our “values” around education; including what constitutes a quality education and what it will take to ensure all our students have the same educational opportunities.
Spring programming for the series aired from April 17–May 18, 2006, and you can listen to the reports, stories and documentaries in the Chicago Matters audio library.
Fall programming airs September 25–October 5, 2006. Each story is broadcast at 7:50 am during Morning Edition, between 9-10 am on Eight Forty-Eight, and at 5:50 pm during All Things Considered. The 30-minute documentary, Englewood, CPS and a Culture of Failure, airs at 6 pm on October 4, 2006, and again on Eight Forty-Eight.
See the Fall Schedule!
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The fall installment of Chicago Matters: Valuing Education takes place from September 25-October 5, 2006. If you want to listen to a story again, or hear reports from the Chicago Matters: Valuing Education spring broadcast, visit the audio library. All special reports, documentaries and personal stories are available for both streaming and download, plus you can view photos taken by individual producers.
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As part of Chicago Matters, Chicago Public Radio is once again sponsoring a radio journalism training initiative called the Ear to the Ground mentorship program. This year's program corresponds to the Chicago Matters: Valuing Education theme. Five Chicagoans from diverse backgrounds have researched and produced their own radio stories with help from Chicago Public Radio staff mentors. They cover everything from how the black church has influenced the education of African Americans to the needs of the Ukrainian population within Chicago's public schools. Click here to listen to the stories, and find out more about Ear to the Ground. |
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To keep the conversation going, Chicago Matters has set up a community blog, and invited teachers and others in the education trenches to join us to discuss the educational issues and problems important to them.
Our Guest blogger right now is Lucy Klocksin. She has substantial history with the public school system
from many different perspectives. Though she began her career in
Arizona, she has been in the Chicago area for a while now, teaching at New Trier High School in the northern suburbs, and Holy Trinity on
the west side. For ten years, she experienced the system as a
parent, raising two children who attended public schools in Wilmette
and graduated from New Trier. Since returning to teaching, she has
worked as a reading specialist in Mount prospect, and on the North Shore. Since 1994 she has taught at Boone School in Chicago. Find out about her ideas on education and join the discussion online.
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To prepare for this year's Chicago Matters: Valuing Education, we visited communities around the Chicagoland area to find out what issues of education are important to them and what they think of their local educational institutions. Click here to listen to what they have to say. You can also get your two cents in via E-mail. Contact Chicago Matters with your thoughts and suggestions for the series. |
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| An annual public information series initiated and funded by the Chicago Community Trust, Chicago Matters is a multimedia partnership among Chicago Public Radio, WTTW Channel 11, the Chicago Reporter, and the Chicago Public Library. This year, we've also invited Catalyst magazine to join us.
Click here to explore past series, including audio archives of Chicago Public Radio's reports and documentaries. Click here to visit the official Chicago Matters Web site.
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