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