Poverty rates are growing in Illinois, as are its effects on schools. Alumna Adenia Linker is managing an innovative grant project seeking to address student exposure to violence and trauma.
MEd Youth Development grad Daisy Zamora traveled to Costa Rica with the UIC Health-Oriented Latino Association to provide medical care and health education for rural Costa Ricans.
EdD Urban Education Leadership student and principal Nia Abdullah worked with parents and students to take a snapshot of school improvement from a motivational perspective.
Alumna Alexis Cullerton is working for the U.S. Department of State in Loja, Ecuador to provide the nation's teachers with professional development in teaching English and literacy strategies.
Alumna Cynthia Soto is the new director of Native American support programs at UIC, seeking to recruit Chicagoland Native American students and draw connections to their heritage in the community.
Benji Hart, BA Urban Education-Elementary Education '14, argues in a Salon article that calling for peace and order after the Baltimore protests is difficult when "the state breaks its own laws with regards to the oppressed."
After years of building culturally relevant lessons for English language learners in CPS schools, 2015 Dean's Merit Award winner Zayoni Torres is heading to South Africa to train future teachers.
School principal Kevin Gallick is building a high school devoted to exposing career options to students from predominantly low-income households in Chicago's post-industrial East Side neighborhood.
What happens when students form their own inclusive groups based on race or gender or learning ability? Alumna Yasmeen Elayyan shares her strategies to address student-caused school segregation.
When alumna Amani Ghusein asks her 4th graders to draw a picture of a scientist, she receives comic-like mad scientists. Her challenge: help her Latino students see themselves as Latino scientists.
