The Daniel Murphy Scholarship Fund (DMSF) was founded over 30 years ago to give high school scholarship assistance and educational support to Chicago students who demonstrate financial need and academic...
My biggest fear through my middle and high school years was winding up like Steve Guttenberg. I’m not talking about Steve Guttenberg, major film star of Police Academy and Three Men...
In 1983 a committee of public luminaries working under the direction of Ronald Reagan’s education secretary issued a report titled “A Nation at Risk,” which found that the perceived poor...
By Educational Endeavors tutors Amanda Fink and Andrew Cutler Early in the pandemic, a meme made the rounds, reading: As you binge watch your thirteenth series on Netflix in two days, remember...
For years, most people assumed that how well you did in high school correlated directly with how smart you were. But today, many educators and psychologists have realized that intelligence...
In third grade, I was a math whiz. I had memorized the times tables up to 10x10, so I was considered good at math. This continued through grade school — with...