He also participates as a board member of the Chicago Alliance to End Homelessness, Chicago United, The Lyric Opera of Chicago, The University of Chicago Hospitals and The University of Chicago Laboratory Schools.

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Each can be carried out by children of all ages in schools around the world and no special equipment is needed (all experiments can be done with laboratory equipment at schools).

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The city is now a living education laboratory, with more charter schools than non-charters.

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In fact, 43 states report that a third or more of their schools fail to meet the functional requirements necessary to effectively teach laboratory science even though hands-on science education is vital for the jobs of the future.

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And with over half of its students in charter schools and a large and influential Teach for America corps, New Orleans has become a laboratory and model for education reform.

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