Publications & Resources
Publications
Data
& Democracy Project: Investing in Neighborhoods
A
collaboration of the Collaborative for Equity and Justice in Education
and the Nathalie
P. Voorhees Center for Neighborhood and Community Improvement.
February
2009
Paper #2: Examining CPS' plan to close, phase out, consolidate,
turn-around 22 schools
Available for dowload in PDF*
This report provides data that can be used to examine
Chicago Public Schools plan to close, consolidate, phase out or turn-around
22 schools announced January 16, 2009. This report builds on the framework
and analyses of the Data and Democracy research paper released February
2008.
For more information about this report, please contact
Pauline Lipman at plipman@uic.edu.
February
2008
Paper
#1: Examining CPS' plan to close, consolidate 11 schools and turn-around
8 schools
Available for dowload in PDF*
The report provides data that can be used to examine the Chicago Public
School district's plan to close, consolidate and turn-around several
schools. Announced January 24, 2008, the plan - if approved - is to
be implemented following a decision made by the CPS board at its February
meeting. CPS announced it would use the turn-around model to address
chronic under-performance in 8 elementary and high schools and relocations,
phase-outs, consolidations, and closings to address underenrollment
in 11 elementary schools. Data in this report show these schools are
primarily in communities of color experiencing gentrification or rapidly
changing demographics.
For more information about this report, please contact Pauline Lipman
at plipman@uic.edu.
February
2009
The
Charter Difference: A Comparison of Chicago Charter and Neighborhood High
Schools
Available for dowload in PDF*
With the proliferation of charter schools in Chicago, an independent study
of charters' performance and management practices is long overdue. How
do charter schools differ from CPS schools? Do they perform better? The
scope of this study is restricted to high schools, but takes the first
step towards such an independent study.
For more information about this report, please contact Eric Gutstein
at gutstein@uic.edu.
*To read PDF, download Adobe
Reader.
Resources
Teacher Resources
- Internet Archive
offers permanent access for researchers, historians, and scholars to
historical collections that exist in digital format.
- Learner.org
provides on-demand Annenberg Media video programs and teacher resources
for K-12 teachers.
- NYCoRE
is the New York Collective of Radical Educators. Curriculum guides are
available for download about various social justice issues.
- Northland Poster
Collective provides an on-line catalogue of social justice art and
other tools for grassroots organizing.
- Radical Math
is a resource for educators interested in integrating issues of social
and economic justice into math curriculum and classes.
- Rethinking
Schools is an independent publisher of educational materials at
the elementary and secondary education level, with a strong emphasis
on issues of equity and social justice.
- Teachable
Moment provides educators with timely teaching ideas to encourage
critical thinking on issues of the day and foster a positive classroom
environment.
- Teaching
for Change provides teachers and parents with the tools to transform
schools into centers of justice where students learn to read, write
and change the world.
Chicago Area
Education Advocacy/Organizing/Activist Groups
- Cross City
Campaign for Urban School Reform is a national network of school
reformers who support efforts to create high-quality schools that ensure
educational success for all urban young people.
- Designs
for Change is a 30-year-old, multi-racial, educational research
and reform organization whose basic mission is to serve as a catalyst
for major improvements in the public schools serving the 50 largest
cities in the country, with a particular emphasis on Chicago.
- Parents United
for Responsible Education works towards enhancing the quality of
public education in the city of Chicago by informing parents about educational
issues, bringing the views of parents into the decision-making process,
and acting as an advocate for parents in their relationships with the
school administration.
- Teachers
for Social Justice is an organization of teachers, administrators,
pre-service teachers, and other educators working in public, independent,
alternative, and charter schools and universities in the Chicago area,
committed to education for social justice.
Journals and Research Organizations
Media Resources
- Catalyst
Chicago is an editorially independent newsmagazine created in 1990
to document, analyze and support school-improvement efforts in the Chicago
Public Schools.
- Chicago
Defender, founded in 1905, has been the voice of the African-American
Community in Chicago and across the United States.
- Chicago Indymedia,
a part of a grassroots organization Independent Media Center, is committed
to using media production and distribution as a tool for promoting social
and economic justice.
- Colorlines
is a national newsmagazine on race and politics published by the Applied
Research Center.
- Community Media
Workshop is a Chicago-based center that trains community activists
and organizations how to tell their stories to the media and provides
links to local and national media sources.
- Democracy Now
is a national, daily, independent, award-winning news program that provides
access to people and perspectives rarely heard in the U.S.corporate-sponsored
media
- Dollars
and Sense is a non-profit publisher that produces the bi-monthly
magazine Dollars & Sense and the Real World college course
readers and other texts.
- Fairness and
Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) the national media watch group, has
been offering well-documented criticism of media bias and censorship
since 1986.
- In These Times
is dedicated to informing and analyzing popular movements for social,
environmental and economic justice.
- IndyKids is
a free newspaper and teaching tool that aims to inform children on current
news and world events from a progressive perspective and to inspire
a passion for social justice and learning. It is geared toward kids
in grades 4 to 8 and high school English Language Learners.
- Pacifica Radio
is a listener supported community radio network of commercial free stations
that server their local communities and beyond.
- THIS IS HELL
is a radio show broadcast every Saturday morning in Chicago that gives
listeners access to information and perspectives that are muted or overlooked
by mainstream media in the States.
- Z Communications
provides a variety of resources such as (monthly magazine, video productions,
a huge website with translations, archives, links to other progressive
sites, a daily commentary program) for critical thinking on political,
cultural, social, and economic life in the U.S and world.
Foundations and Funding Organizations
- Chicago Foundation
for Education provides grant programs to assist teachers and students
in the classroom and improve instructional quality.
- Chicago Community
Trust provides critical charitable resources in the region of
Chicago to the field of Arts and Culture, Basic Human Needs, Community
Development, Education and Health
- Crossroads
Fund supports community organizations working on issues of social
and economic justice in the Chicago area.
- The
Field Foundation of Illinois provides support to individual schools,
school clusters, and collaborations between schools and other education
stakeholders to improve education and help educationally and economically
disadvantaged children.
- Funding Exchange
is network of social justice foundations throughout the United States
that support progressive social change through fundraising for local,
national, and international grantmaking programs.
- Bill
& Melinda Gates Foundation funds efforts to improve the high
school graduate rate and college preparation.
- The Joyce Foundation
funds efforts to improve education in the areas of teacher quality,
early childhood, and closing the achievement gap.
- Peace Development
Fund makes grants to organizations and projects working to achieve
peaceful, just and interdependent relationships among people and nations.
- Resist funds
activist organizing and education work within movements for social change
and has been funding American progressive organizations for more than
30 years which are actively part of a movement for social change.
- Rochelle
Lee Fund focuses on supporting teachers and students in the Chicago
public schools to become a successful reader.
- Woods Fund of
Chicago is a grantmaking foundation whose goal is to increase opportunities
for less advantaged people and communities in metropolitan settings.
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