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Born in a North Chicago neighborhood, son of agynecologist father and writer mother, Turow movedto Winnetka, and affluent Chicago suburb when hewas...
...numerous hearings and appeals required. Part of the difficulty is that the probationary period before tenure is granted, a mere three years in most states, is too short. Also, administrators generally do a poor job of scrutinizing tenure candidates. Henry Bangser, superintendent of New Trier Township High School in Winnetka, Ill., estimates that it can take more than three years from the time a tenured teacher is judged incompetent by a principal until that teacher has exhausted the appeal process...
...Morris High in the South Bronx, where water cascades down the stairways when it rains, and Chicago's Du Sable High, where the chemistry teacher uses a popcorn popper as a Bunsen burner. Kozol juxtaposes these images with descriptions of the luxurious facilities in nearby wealthy suburbs like Winnetka, north of Chicago. Its New Trier High has, among other things, seven gyms, rooms for fencing, wrestling and dance instruction, and an Olympic-size pool...
...love the law. I always will," he says, seated behind his desk and facing a window with a northward view that embraces many of the landscapes of his life. On a clear day he can see Winnetka, where his parents moved when he was a teenager; closer at hand is the north Chicago neighborhood where he was born. Somewhere in between is his present house, where he lives with his wife Annette and their three children: Rachel, 10, Gabriel, 7, and Eve, 3. "I do regard the law as a noble calling," he elaborates. "But I can't shake...
...nouveau-riche Jewish ghetto" filled with returned World War II veterans eager to get ahead; he recalls the "sense of identity" he got from that ethnic community and the loss he felt when, at age 13, his parents moved further north to the wealthy and Waspish suburb of Winnetka...