Frank Chimero on why Louis C.K. hits home so hard, so well: I’ve been thinking about Louis CK lately… [on] why he has blown up in popularity in the past couple years, and why his comedy seems to resonate with these times. It always feels like there’s a comedian willing to address contemporary concerns with [...]
Emergency Manager Roy Roberts: No plans to merge Detroit and Highland Park schools
For those wondering whether Highland Park’s schools would be absorbed into Detroit’s school district, don’t bet on it just yet. One of the bigger suggestions — or rumors, depending on who you talk to — for the troubled Highland Park school district would be to join forces with Detroit’s district or possibly Hamtramck’s district. Both [...]
History of Montessori Schools
Maria Montessori opened the first Montessori school on January 6, 1907 in Rome. The first woman to become a physician in Italy, Montessori was also an educator who theorized that children have an innate ability to learn with certain sensitive periods yielding a higher aptitude for learning than others. Montessori maintained educators should cultivate this [...]
Urlacher’s painkiller use depicts bigger problem in sports
Early Tuesday morning as I perused the numerous work emails needing my attention, my department head came into the office and asked if I had heard about Brian Urlacher’s recent comments; that it was all over the radio. Being a suburbanite of Chicago, one very interested in happenings in the sports world (at youth through [...]