Leslie Allison has a dream. She hopes to be a professor teaching upper-level English classes at a small liberal-arts college, one that would allow her the freedom to do research without the ...

Welcome to Political Cartoon Class, a regular Friday feature on the social studies agenda for 7th- and 8th-graders at Chicago’s Peterson Elementary School, 5510 N. Christiana Ave.

Students in the class analyze political cartoons and videos to explore a satirist’s role in society, both politically and culturally. “It’s not like a typical college class,” said College senior ...