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The Children’s Center was featured in the latest edition of The New Yorker in an article profiling current Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan. Carlo Rotella’s story recounts Arne’s history at the Center and how it shaped his pursuits in education.

Rotella describes Arne’s time growing up in Hyde Park, playing [...]

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From the article:

“Sue Duncan has taught poor kids at her after-school center on Chicago’s South Side for 48 years. She says her son Arne spent seven days a week there as he was growing up.

‘It was absolutely formative,’ Arne Duncan, 44, said of working with his mother. He learned that ‘kids from totally [...]

This year’s writing project, DANGER, explores the theme of violence in neighborhoods, schools and homes.

Assistant Director Owen Duncan writes in the introduction, “In this collection we find, as in any book of children’s writings, the beautiful next to the mundane, the fantastic mixed with the gritty–but there is a deeply troubling undercurrent here. These [...]

Congratulations to Raven (left), who is graduating from King College Prep and attending Harold Washington this fall, and to Davina, who is graduating from Prospectives Charter School with a full scholarship to Southern Illinois University!

“Sue taught me how to learn,” Raven said.