Education's role reshapes crisis of American schools
The essay argues the crisis is not worsening schooling but changing the role of education in society. Education now dominates individual, community, and economic life, demanding broad attainment and accountability. It notes the growing cost, the burden of integration, and the need for new structures and pedagogy as society shifts from an industrial to a knowledge economy.
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Peter F. Drucker
America
Mesopotamia
Johnny
Bilandic urged to study labor mediation lessons in Chicago
Opinion notes Bilandic has failed to emulate Daley as a labor mediator amid ongoing teacher, police, and fire unions. It suggests Democrats could favor a state collective bargaining system to share blame for strikes and costly settlements, impacting Bilandic’s reelection bid.
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Chicago
Michael Bilandic
Richard J. Daley
Daley
Bilandic
City Colleges
Jane Byrne
Cook County
Kennedy Myth or Ted as a Man
Analysis argues Ted Kennedy’s mystique and political appeal contrast with factual readiness for 1980. It weighs his Senate record against the Kennedy legacy, urging voters to separate myth from the man before nominating him or rethinking Carter.
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Kennedy
Ted
Ted Kennedy
Jimmy Carter
Carter
U.S
John
Robert
Democratic Party
The Unknown Holocaust Boy Sparks London Identity Debate
A London man claims to be the boy in the iconic Holocaust photo, igniting controversy over the picture found in a war criminal's effects. Survivors decry the claim as it prompts questions about the boy’s name origin and fate, highlighting enduring memory of a tragedy and humanity’s moral scar.
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Warsaw Ghetto
London
New York
Jerusalem
Effingham
Learning as Lifelong Process Redefines School Role
The piece argues that learning is a lifelong biological process involving the whole person from conception onward. It rejects the view of learning as separate from doing and body, urging schools to shed the idea of learning as a detached activity and to become an integral, central part of life.
Middle East and Illinois politics collide in energy crisis
Editorial notes Camp David peace moves and U S oil dependence shaping Illinois elections. It warns Saudi influence risks, calls for bold policy shifts, and urges leaders and the public to press for a broader, pragmatic energy and governance framework amid rising prices and national stakes.
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Robert Reid
Lindsay Schaub
Middle East
Illinois
Camp David
United States
U.S
Israel
Carter
Egypt
Anwar Sadat
James Thompson
Michael Bakalis
U S Should Go Into Cambodia Opinion Letter
A reader from Chester argues the United States should unilaterally intervene in Cambodia, saying global actors will not act and the nation has moral leadership now. He cites past Vietnam errors but urges immediate aid despite the rest of the world’s silence. Loren Woodman.
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Cambodia
Vietnam
Loren Woodman Chester
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