- NU-TEACH Students Discuss Urban Teaching with No Child Actress
Fifty beginning teachers from SESP's NU-TEACH alternate certification program discussed urban teaching with actress Nilaja Sun after her performance of No Child at Lookingglass Theatre on November 1.
11/11/07 - Early Academic Skills, Not Behavior, Best Predict School Success
An educational study unprecedented in scope, led by professor Greg Duncan, finds that children who enter kindergarten with elementary mathematics and reading skills are the most likely to experience later academic success, whether or not they have socioemotional problems.
11/12/07 - Alumna Daphne Whitington Wins National Teaching Award
Daphne Whitington (MS00), a special education English teacher at Las Casas Occupational High School in Chicago, was taken by surprise in October when she won a $25,000 Milken Educator Award for her innovative teaching.
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