She held a folder containing her acceptance letter while she sat in the back row of a freshman orientation at a…

Like most underfunded American schools, Walter H. Dyett High School on Chicago’s South Side has a hallway that smells slightly of…

The idea sounds simple enough until you start running the numbers. Double what America pays its teachers. Lift the floor, narrow…

Before anyone uttered the word “hantavirus,” the hallway had an unpleasant odor. Later, in the cautious, half-embarrassed manner that adults speak…