Media

FALL 2011

December 10, 2011. Mikva students campaigning for presidential hopefuls in Iowa are featured on ABC 7 in a story titled, "Chicago_Students_in_Iowa_for_GOP_Debate."

November 21, 2011. The speeches from the Project Soapbox Final Round are featured on WBEZ in a story titled, "Chicago_Teens_Get_On_Their_Soapbox."

November 17, 2011. Students participating in Project Soapbox - Mikva's public speaking curriculum and tournament - are featured on the Chicago Tonight program on WTTW.
Project_Soapbox_on_Chicago_Tonight

October 4, 2011. Mikva Education Council student is interviewed on FOX Chicago News. The interview addresses the Council's anti-cyberbullying campaign in a story titled,
"Bullied_Student_Alexandria_Janopoulos:_Reach_Out_for_Help."

September 26, 2011. The Chicago Tribune spotlights Mikva students and the Education Council's anti-cyberbullying research and video in an article titled,
"Students_Warn_Peers_about_Cyberbullying."

September 23, 2011. The Mikva Challenge Education Council's research and video about cyber-bullying is featured in a story on WGN News titled, "Chicago Students Attack Cyber-Bullying." The youth leaders' work is also featured on ABC 7 in a story titled,
"Chicago_Video_Addresses_Bullying." Univision featured their work in a story titled,
"No_al_Acoso_Cibernético." WBEZ highlights the results of the youth leaders' digital abuse survey in a story titled, "Survey:_One_in_Three_CPS_Students_are_Cyber_Bullied."

SUMMER 2011

June 8, 2011. Mikva's Director of Curriculum and Teacher Training, Jill Bass, writes a letter to the editor of the national education journal Education Week about Mikva's Action Civics approach titled, "Poor_Children_Deserve_Better_Civics_Education."

WINTER/SPRING 2011

January 27, 2011. Mikva's Dear Mayor website is profiled in The Huffington Post in an article titled, "Dear_Mayor:_Mikva_Challenge_Program_Gets_High_Schoolers Talking To Chicago's Next Mayor."

January 17, 2011. Mikva Challenge organized a televised Mayoral Candidate Forum on WTTW's Chicago Tonight. Over 200 Mikva students grilled Mayoral candidates - Rahm Emanuel, Miguel del Valle, Carol Moseley Braun, and Gery Chico - about the most pressing issues facing youth in Chicago. The Mayoral Candidate Forum received enormous media coverage as detailed below.

• WTTW - " Mayoral_Candidates_Answer_Tough_Questions_From_Chicago_Teens"
• The Chicago Tribune - "Mayoral_Candidates_Detail_Childhood_Bullying_at_Student_Forum"
  
• The Chicago Sun-Times - "Mayoral Debate: Kids' Questions More Revealing than Pols' Answers"
  
• WBEZ - "Winner of Last Night's Mayoral Forum? The Mikva Challenge"
  
• FOX News - "Chicago_Mayoral_Candidates_Talk_Education_in_First_TV_Debate"
  
• FOX Chicago News - "Chicago_Mayoral_Candidates_Talk_About_Bullying"
  
• NBC Chicago - "In Mayoral Forum, It's the Students Who Impress"
  
• ABC 7 - "Students_Question_Candidates_For_Mayor"
  
• Chicago News Cooperative - "Mayoral_Forum_Yields_Few_Sparks"
  
• WGN TV - "CPS_Students_Grill_Candidates"
  
• The Huffington Post - "Mayoral_Candidates_Prepare_For_First_Televised_Debate"
  
• NBC Chicago - "Gery Chico's One-Point Plan to Stop Bullying"
  
• chicagoist.com - "High_Schoolers_Grill_Mayoral_Candidates"
  
• NBC Chicago - "Rahm's Tan Made Him Bully's Target"
  

FALL/WINTER 2010

December 15, 2010. The Mikva Education Council's work is featured in a KQED story titled, "How_Should_We_Use_Technology_in_Schools?_Ask_Students."

December 12, 2010. The Chicago Sun-Times writes an article about the Listen UP! Youth Convention titled, "Teens_to_New_Mayor:_Keep_Us_Safe."

October 25, 2010. Mikva Challenge Education Council member Tiffany Witkowski's letter to the editor titled, " Blocking_YouTube_Hurts_CPS_Students," is published in the Chicago Sun-Times.

October 20, 2010. The Mikva Education Council's campaign to improve technology in Chicago Public Schools is featured in a national Education Week article titled, "Chicago_Students_Push_District_to_Loosen_Cellphone_Rules."

October 15, 2010. The Mikva Challenge Education Council's own Karina De La Rosa writes a letter to the editor titled, "Cell_Phone_Technology_Needed_in_CPS," which is published in the Chicago Tribune.

The Mikva Challenge Education Council is featured in two webisodes of the MacArthur Foundation's online magazine "Spotlight on Digital Media and Learning." The webisodes follow the council's efforts to incorporate 21st century technology in Chicago Public Schools.

• September 16, 2010. The first webisode is titled, "Chicago Teens Work Alongside School Leaders to Improve Technology Use in Schools."

• October 6, 2010. The second webisode is titled, "Chicago Teens Call For Schools' CEO to Bring 21st Century Technology into Their Classrooms."

October 6, 2010. The Mikva Challenge Education Council is featured in the news magazine Catalyst Chicago in an article titled, " Chicago_Teens_Say_Better_Tech_Use_Would_Improve_Learning."

October 2, 2010.  US Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan, praises Mikva Challenge in his speech to attorneys at the American Bar Association Litigation Section in Chicago. Read his speech titled, " Attorneys_and_the_Higher_Calling."

September 25, 2010. The Elections in Action Kick-Off Event is featured on ABC 7 News in a piece titled, " Political_Candidates_Face_Illinois_High_School_Students."

SUMMER 2010

September 4, 2010. Mikva Challange Education Council is featured in the online news magazine Adentro de Pilsen in an article titled, " Students_Fight_for_Smart_Phone_Access_in_Public_Schools."

August 21, 2010. Mikva Challenge Education Council's 2010 policy recommendations to incorporate 21st century technology in Chicago Public Schools are featured in a Chicago Sun-Times article titled, " Students Lobby to Use Smart Phones in Classrooms," by Rosalind Rossi. The Sun-Times article is also commented on by the blog chicagoist.com.