Education

For two decades, LEARN Charter School Network has transformed the lives of young people in some of Chicago’s most vulnerable communities.  Across their 10 Chicago and Lake County campuses (and one D.C. campus!) spanning pre-K to eighth grade, teachers and school leaders work tirelessly to serve 4,200 scholars and their families and give them an […]

A vibrant Catholic school prepared for 21st century education, Our Lady of Perpetual Help School continues to be a leader on the North Shore, a true reflection of its commitment to local families.  OLPH sits on a welcoming eight-building campus in Glenview, offering a quality, faith-based education from preschool through eighth grade. Each grade level […]

As part of our “You Said It” Op-Ed series, we invite contributors to submit their opinion pieces. Have a submission? Contact us here. It’s widely understood that mental health is a key part of overall health, particularly for young people. In the recent Advisory on Youth Mental Health, U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy advises that […]

The indigenous Miwok people of California’s Marin and Southern Sonoma Counties left adobe structures you can still see at Olompali State Historic Park. Ancestral Puebloans of Chaco Canyon in New Mexico built magnificent brick buildings – huge kivas and structures believed to have contained as many as 600 rooms — still standing after many hundreds […]