Students gather on the steps of Hancock College Prep, a high school converted into a selective enrollment school in 2015. Hancock is the most recently established school of its kind, but the history of selective enrollment schools spans back to the 1950s.
Richard A. Chapman
Students gather on the steps of Hancock College Prep, a high school converted into a selective enrollment school in 2015. Hancock is the most recently established school of its kind, but the history of selective enrollment schools spans back to the 1950s.
Richard A. Chapman
Selective enrollment schools have roots in integration efforts — and the space race.
Students gather on the steps of Hancock College Prep, a high school converted into a selective enrollment school in 2015. Hancock is the most recently established school of its kind, but the history of selective enrollment schools spans back to the 1950s.
Richard A. Chapman
Chicago’s school board recently voted to prioritize neighborhood schools and de-emphasize selective enrollment schools, but board members are not ending school choice.
Reset dives into the history of how selective schools came to be — from the space race to integration efforts.
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