Gun control debate intensifies after 15-year-old who performed at inauguration becomes 42nd victim of gun violence this year. She was the 42nd gun death victim in Chicago this year, a 15-year-old girl in the “wrong place at the wrong time”, according to police. Now the killing of Hadiya Pendlet... Read more...
As the issue of girl bullying has risen to new prominence, it has attracted a more troubling kind of attention. Reality television show producers discovered that mean girls sell, and they churned out scores of programs featuring breathtakingly aggressive females.” Rachel Simmons... Read more...
Illinois, Chicago Public Schools top national list for suspension disparity One of every 4 African-American public school students in Illinois was suspended at least once for disciplinary reasons during the 2009-10 school year, the highest rate among 47 states examined in a national study rele... Read more...