All school reform

February 19, 2015

Chicago needs elected school board, study says

Change would lead to greater transparency, public participation

Pile of open books

July 9, 2014

Parents dissatisfied a year after Chicago school closings

Study says families distrust CPS, want more voice in policies

Ben Superfine

February 19, 2013

Informed decisions on school reform

Ben Superfine focuses on the most persistent problems in education, those that have thwarted effective school reform for decades.

January 24, 2012

New Book Critiques ‘Corporate’ School Reform

Neoliberal education reforms, including No Child Left Behind and Chicago’s Renaissance 2010, tend to “marketize” schools and threaten to dismantle public education as we know it, according to a new book edited by a University of Illinois at Chicago education researcher.