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New Expression: April/May 2006 (Volume 29, Issue 3) Columbia College Chicago Columbia College Chicago Digital Commons @ Columbia College Chicago New Expression Youth Communication Chicago Collection April 2006 New Expression: April/May 2006 (Volume 29, Issue 3) Columbia College Chicago Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.colum.edu/ycc_newexpressions Part of the Journalism Studies Commons This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License. Recommended Citation Columbia College Chicago, "New Expression: April/May 2006 (Volume 29, Issue 3)" (2006). New Expression. 207. http://digitalcommons.colum.edu/ycc_newexpressions/207 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Youth Communication Chicago Collection at Digital Commons @ Columbia College Chicago. It has been accepted for inclusion in New Expression by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Columbia College Chicago. By Teens. For Teens, About Teens • Does School Refortn Need _ Reforming (or maybe simplification)lj _j L - • School violence Student Entrepreneurs Job Corps Pink Line Page7 Page 19 Page 22 Page 10 Editor-In-Chief Megan Daniels, Walter Payton Natalia Santillan, Lane Tech Vincent Dixon, Gwendolyn Brooks • Danielle Eureste, Lane Tech Metro Editor Kaya Flowers, Lane Tech Vincent Dixon, Gwendolyn Brooks Melissa Foley, Lane Tech Whitney Helm, Young Women's Leadership Features Editor Tywanna Lesley, John Hope Devin Ross, Walter Payton My-Phuong Ly Northside College Prep Sophia Lugo, Lane Tech Graphics/LayoutJWebsite Devin Ross, Walter Payton judith Esp1no Natalia Santillan, Lane Tech Charity Taitt, Young Women's Leadership Copy Editor Tywanna Lesley, john Hope Wendell Hutson , Editorial Advisor Philip Costello, Executive Director/Publisher o D rs Youth Communtcation President After School Matters Columbia College Chicago Annette Peck, Executive Serv1ce Corp. Alphawood Foundation (Volunteer) Brinson Foundation 619 S. Michigan Avenue ·- William C. Bannerman Foundation Vice-President Francis Beidler Foundation Phone (312) 922-7150 William D. Frost, Canadian Pac1fic Chicago Community Trust Fax (312) 922-7151 Newsprint (Retired) Chicago Reader Chicago Tribune Foundation Secretary Christ Church Benevolence Fund [email protected] Charles Boyce, MAE/johnny Commu­ City Colleges Chicago nications Coleman Foundation New Expression is printed by the Columbia College Chicago Treasurer Dow Jones Newspaper Fund Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Russell Pryor, Dolins, Dolins & Sarin­ Elizabeth Morse Genius sky, LTD Charitable Trust Illinois Arts Council Past President Mayer & Morris Kaplan Family John Marshall, Bowater Newsprint Foundation Kenosha News I Howard Brown Board Members Lake County Press, Inc. Todd Adams, Milwaukee joumal Sentinel Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Giovanna Breu, People Magaz1ne Newspaper Association of Kevin Davy, Shore Bank America Tracey Robinson-English, Ebony Magaz1ne Northern Trust Company Jerry Field, lllino1s lnstrtute ofTechnology Albert Pick, Jr. Fund Layton Olson, Howe & Hutton Polk Bros Foundation Relations Foundation Roosevelt University St. Paul Travelers Insurance United Parcel Service Howard L. Willette Foundation This Month In New Expression April/ May 2006 Cover Story School Reform? College out of reach for many Chicago teens Page 4 Teens --=~::....:.,._::..___...,.........._.--.----. .............__,.,..,...,...,.,.............,. ~~ Entertainment Bussiness - - ----. o4 cover story ...0 0 0 COLLEGE OUT OF REACH FOR N MANY CHICAGO TEENS L c... <t: By NE Staff c 0 A recent report by the Consortium on dents from Chicago high schools have the Foundation. VI VI Chicago School Research gave a thumbs lowest graduation rates--lower than the <!) L down analysis on teens graduating from national average for those groups and lower It's the largest single grant the Gates c... X Chicago high schools looking to also graduate than their white and Asian peers from Foundation has awarded to a local school dis­ UJ from college. Chicago. Just 22 percent of African-American trict. It will start small this fall then pave the ~ males who began at a four-year college gradu­ way for curriculum changes at 50 high schools <!) z The study, which tracked Chicago high school ated within six years. over the next three years. students who graduated in 1998 and 1999, also found that making it to college doesn't No Child Left Behind Act In a statement, Mayor Richard M. Daley, said, ensure success: Of the city public school stu­ Under the law championed by President Bush 'The impact of this grant will be long-lasting. dents who went to a four-year college, only and signed by him in 2002, all public school We will take what we learn and apply it about 35 percent earned a bachelor's degree students must be proficient in reading and across the entire system over the next few within six years, compared with 64 percent math by 2014. years so that all of our children will benefit." nationally. Schools receiving federal poverty aid also Last fall, a $2.3 million study financed by the Poor preparation for college was among the must demonstrate annually that students in all Gates Foundation produced a radical blue­ top reasons the report gave for the grim racial categories are progressing or risk penal­ print to overhaul Chicago public high schools. results. ties that include extending the school year, The $50 million to $100 million plan called changing curriculum or firing administrators for new curriculum, new schools and a way to Schools chief Arne Duncan said the gnm sta­ and teachers. judge schools beyond test scores. The pivotal tistics in the report and the variation in col­ piece was new "instructional support pack­ lege rates among city high schools are no sur­ The law requires public schools to test more ages" to improve English. math and science prise--they are what is driving massive private than 25 million students periodically in read­ instruction. It included new curriculum aligned investment in high school reform. ing and math. among grades and with state standards, inten­ "When students here are unpre- sive teacher training. equipment and assess­ pared for college or the world But the schools also must report scores by ments. of work, they are condemned categories, such as race, poverty, migrant sta­ to social failure," he said. tus, English proficiency and special education. Curriculum varies from school to school and, "We're domg everything we Failure in any category means the whole in some cases, from grade to grade. That can to dramatically change school fails. leaves many stu dents unprepared for state the high school experience tests and out of sync if they transfer, educa­ for our teenagers." States including Illinois are helping schools get tion critics said. around that second requirement by using a The report also found that loophole in the law that allows them to But now, the Gates Foundation has come up students who graduated ignore scores of ethnic groups that are too with the money to finance curriculum changes from high school with a small to be statistically significant. that will debut next school year could change grade-point average below all that," said Melvin .Johnson, executive direc­ 3 0 were unlikely to gradu­ Suppose, for example, that a school has 2,000 tor for the Teenage Basketball Association, a ate wtthm six years often white students and nine Hispanics. In nearly Chicago non-profit organization. The schools lacking the study skills that every state, the Hispanic scores wouldn't be set to see changes this fall are Bowen contnbute to college suc­ counted because there aren't enough to pro­ Environmental Studies Team; Carver Military cess. Only about 16 percent vtde meaningful information. Academy; Chicago Military Academy at of students with a high Bronzeville; Clark Academic Prep; Crane; school GPA between 2. 1 and Help is on t he way Dunbar Vocational; Dyett; Fenger Academy; 2.5 graduated dunng that Freshmen at 14 Chicago public high schools John Hope College Prep; Kenwood Academy, time, compared with 63 per­ will have a more challenging and engaging cur­ Wendell Phillips; George Washington; School cent of students who had riculum in English, math and science -- and of the Arts, South Shore Campus and Moses a 3.6 GPA or better. better-trained teachers -- thanks to a $21 mil­ Vines Preparatory Academy at Orr Campus. Latino and black stu- lion grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates feature os SOUL fOOD STAR SERVING PRISON TIME IN jOLIET -- cast! I am an amaceur pamter and I enjoy pamong because tt I am soli 1n contact With everyone. In faet. nght before I relaxes me c moved to ChiCago the whole cast came to my gotng away 0 party to WISh me W'CII.After worlong four years together What was It like growing up In California and "' we have developed a close fnendstup so we talk all the do your parents still reside there? "'(1.J orne. GroWing up tn (Oakland) Caltfomaa was cool. I really I... a.. enjoyed 1t. Even though my parents diVOrced when I was X What was your favorite Soul Food scene? SIX. they soli ltve tn Cahform.a along With my older stster My w I really enJOYCd the scenes tnvoivlng me being 1n1ured tn a mother IS a rcored regtstered nurse. my father works as a ~ car accrdcnt because It dealt With my manhood as a hus­ longshoreman. and my stster IS a correcuonal officer. (1.J band and father. I was unable to work and provide for my z famtly and had to depend on my Wife to work and pay the How long have you been married to your wife, bills whtle I recovered That's a s.wat100 many men would Ivy, who I undentand Is a model? have a hard ume dealing With and my character. Kenny Yes, she 1s a model and we have been mamed for cwo Chadway. was one of them years My Wife, who IS ftaltan. Cherokee and black. has famtly here tn Chteago coo. And because I love her so much I have Who are some of your favorite musicians and an 8x I 0 photo of her by our bed.We also plan on havmg actors? chtldren someday By NE Staff I like ltstentng to Kanyc West and cn1oy watchtng movtes stamng Morgan Freeman.
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