Naomi Shihab Nye was six years old the first time she came to Chicago, and she immediately fell in love with it. Her first poem, presented enthusiastically to her first-grade teacher one week after her visit, was an ode to the �...

As semesters come to a close, many Parker teachers practice the same ritual of distributing class reviews in order to refine their curriculum and teaching method. Inevitably, every teacher has different ways of gaging studen...