Still Advocating
Writings of a retired educator, advocate, & baby boomer

Posted in ChicagoNow, June 25, 2014 I said I was on vacation and not posting again after Monday, but on the eve of my departure, this...

Reading when not in school Published in ChicagoNow, March 27, 2014 You would think a former teacher and English major with a master’s...

Published in ChicagoNow, March 7, 2014 In its March 6, 2014 editorial in the printed paper, the Chicago Tribune asks, “Where is the harm...

Published in ChicagoNow, March 2, 2014 Dr. Seuss died in 1991, ten years before the No Child Left Behind Act passed Congress and long...

Published in ChicagoNow, January 24, 2014 My granddaughter, a second grader, was punished along with half of her classmates for playing...

Published in ChicagoNow, January 10, 2014 (cCartoon by Marcia Liss) Now I’m really angry! Cherry Preschool, which I founded and directed,...

Published in ChicagoNow, December 9, 2013 Today, December 9, 2013, is Raise Your Hand Day. In its message to Congress, the National...

Published in ChicagoNow, December 4, 2013 (cartoon by Marcia Liss) The first grade teacher tests her students in reading at the start of...

Published in ChicagoNow, November 22, 2013 (Photo: Rachel Monroe/Monroe's Dragonfly) Today, on the 50th anniversary of the assassination...

Published ChicagoNow, October 25, 2013 A friend of mine who trains Chicago public elementary school teachers how to teach reading was...