List/Grid Author Archives: Esther J. Cepeda / Syndicated Columnist
Reading Achievement Makes Gains, but Much Work Remains
CHICAGO - When the Nation's Report Card for grade school math and reading was released la ...
Day of Dead Beats Candy Corn for Honoring Departed
CHICAGO - When I was a kid, the Latin American holiday Day of the Dead - a two-day observa ...
Techies’ Kids in Low-Tech Schools
CHICAGO - If you've been following the occasional series in The New York Times about the ...
The Talk That Parents, Teens Need To Have
CHICAGO - Prepare to blush. According to findings from a poll called "Let's Talk: A ...
Individuality Ensures There’s No Homogenized ‘Us’
CHICAGO - I'm sure that as the one-named author Touré worked on his just-released “ ...
English Fluency a Classroom Must
CHICAGO - I grew up bilingual in a city where as many as 64 languages were spoken by the public ...
Flogging Stereotypes Won’t Put Food on the Table
CHICAGO - Joblessness, the general economic malaise and a never-ending stream of depressing sta ...
Immigration’s Legal Quagmire
CHICAGO - In the most recent example of sending mixed signals about illegal immigration, a fede ...
Only Empty Immigration Promises
CHICAGO - If there was ever any doubt that the only thing President Obama is truly gifted at is ...
One Stand That’s a Real Lemon
CHICAGO - Just in case you're not thoroughly fed up with partisan politics invading every ...
Waiving Away Schools’ Failure
CHICAGO - Secretary of Education Arne Duncan last week held a "national press call focusi ...
Just Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man
CHICAGO - Here's the reaction you get from young people when they hear that the new Spide ...
