Issue 5

AREA Chicago #5 was released October 11th, 2007

Table of Contents

• Editorial Introduction: Inheriting the Grid #5 by Daniel Tucker
• Guest Editorial Introduction by Dave Stovall

Project Profiles 

• Fire This Time Fund
• Green Lantern Gallery
• Popular Education Alliance
• InCubate
• Pomegranate Radical Health Collective

Interviews

• Jesse Senechal and Maura Nugent on action research at Kelvyn Park High School
• Mia Henry on the Chicago Freedom School
• Paula Ladin on Special Education in CPS
• Pauline Lipman and Rico Gustein on Teachers for Social Justice
• Nance Klehm on formal and informal education
• Homeschooling Parents on why to homeschool
• Anne Rapp on a field trip to the US Social Forum
• Aaron Hughes on Iraq Veterans Against the War
• Eric Roriguez on the Latina Union

Special Features

• How We Learn: Building an Educated City featuring members of Mess Hall, Playpus, Free Geek, Chicagoland/Calumet Underground Railroad Efforts, Bronzeville Historical Society, Chicago Women’s Health Center, The Odyssey Project, Neighborhood Writing Alliance
• Map Insert: Public Education, Public/Private Golf and Racism in the Chicago Region by Jayne Hileman

Articles

• Love Over Fear: A Lesson in Community by Irina Zadov
• Ellen Gates Starr by Sarah Alford
• Can Experimental Cultural Center Replace MFA Programs? by Mike Wolf
• Chicago Teaching Artist Collective by Sarah Atlas
• How Real Does it Get? by Therese Quinn and Erica Meiners
• Contested Space by Joanie Friedman
• Local and National Organizing by Radical Teachers by Faith Agostinone-Wilson
• Ferd Eggan, 1946-2007 by Mary Patten, Walt Senterfitt, Jeannie Kracher, and Debbie Gould
• Street Lessons by Euan Hague
• Learning to Ride a Bike: Mechanic Skillshares by Beth Gutelius and Sarah Miller
• Health Care Self Care by Lisa Sousa