Eve Ewing, Author at A Just Chicago

Born and raised in Chicago, Eve Ewing is a teacher, a writer, an artist, and a research scholar. Eve has taught both science and language arts in the Chicago Public Schools. She currently lives in Boston where she is a doctoral candidate at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Her essays and commentary have been featured in Time Out Chicago, Newcity, Chicago Weekly, AREA Chicago, and on NPR’s Morning Edition. She is also editor at Seven Scribes.

Phantoms Playing Double-Dutch: Why the Fight for Dyett is Bigger than One Chicago School Closing

Eve Ewing August 30, 2015 September 3, 2015Action, Schools

They were gathered in the name of Dyett, the high school that the leaders of Chicago Public Schools (CPS) announced in 2012 would be shuttered at the end of 2015. This group of parents, community members, and students sat in the 95-degree heat to demand a meeting with the alderman, Will Burns. They wanted…