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- Title
Chicago Hope.
- Authors
CAPLAN, LINCOLN
- Abstract
The article focuses on a collaboration between the progressive boarding school Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire and the Chicago, Illinois Noble Charter School in educational reforms. It comments on the history of mismanagement in Chicago's public schools and mentions that students in urban charter schools are getting the equivalent of 28 additional days in reading education and 40 days in math. It talks about millionaire Edward S. Harkness' educational philanthropy between 1920 and 1940.
- Subjects
ILLINOIS; CHICAGO (Ill.); UNITED States; EDUCATIONAL change; PHILLIPS Exeter Academy; CHARTER schools; HARKNESS, Edward Stephen, 1874-1940; PUBLIC schools; EDUCATIONAL quality
- Publication
American Scholar, 2016, Vol 85, Issue 4, p28
- ISSN
0003-0937
- Publication type
Article