Tag Archive: UChicago Charter School


UChicago CCSR Report Finds Teens Flock to YOUmedia Digital Learning Center to Create, Innovate, Hang Out

YOUmedia
May 30, 2013

As new initiatives to exploit technology and digital media for learning sweep the country, the YOUmedia learning center for teens at the Harold Washington Library in downtown Chicago demonstrates both the challenges and opportunities that these efforts present, a new report from the University of Chicago Consortium on Chicago School Research finds.

Educational leaders participate in Innovation Summit

May 28, 2013
MSNBC

UChicago Charter alum Marcus Prince speaks at a national education innovation summit on the digital learning opportunities with UChicago Charter that shaped his educational aspirations.

UChicago Charter Students Connect with Women Leaders to Build Networking Skills, Confidence

Priscilla Agbeo at Pearls with Power Tea
May 21, 2013

The University of Chicago Women’s Board and the Urban Education Institute volunteer committee welcomed nearly 60 young women from the University of Chicago Charter School’s Woodlawn Campus to the Quadrangle Club on Wednesday, May 8 for an opportunity to network with female leaders in Chicago.

SSA hosts panel for local teenage boys

March 12, 2013
The Chicago Maroon

UChicago Charter School Director Shayne Evans speaks with students on overcoming the obstacles young males face growing up in urban America. 

UChicago CCSR Releases Full Report on Turning Around Low-Performing Schools

CCSR Turnaround Full Report
February 18, 2013

New schools that opened in the buildings of Chicago Public Schools closed for underutilization served students from more distant, less disadvantaged neighborhoods than the neighborhoods students came from before clo­sure, according to the full rep

Greater Bronzeville Buffeted by School Closings

January 9, 2012
Chicago Tribune

In story about prevalent school closings in Bronzeville, UEI Dir. explains that UChicago Charter School gives lottery priority to neighborhood kids; UChicago CCSR study on school closings cited.

Are schools embracing technology?

August 27, 2011

Shayne Evans, director of the University of Chicago Charter School Woodlawn Campus, and Shmuel Meitar, founder and principal of "Time to Know" join Tamron Hall on MSNBC.

The University of Chicago Charter School Graduation

August 27, 2011

Watch this 10-minute highlight video featuring the first graduating class of the University of Chicago Charter School Woodlawn campus!

Woodlawn Championship Debate Team

August 27, 2011

University of Chicago Charter School Woodlawn Campus students excelled in their first year of debate competition, while applying lessons from debate to preparing for college.

Developing a Middle School Model: Video Showcase and Instructional Rubrics

August 27, 2011

What if schools were truly designed around the needs of children? At the Carter G. Woodson Middle School Campus of the University of Chicago Charter School, we have built curriculum, programs, practices and classrooms that are developmentally appropriate for urban middle school students.

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