(CBS) --Legendary Chicago school teacher and education trailblazer Marva Collins has died. She was a public school teacher in Chicago for 14 years who lost faith in how things were being done. But she ...

Marva Collins, the legendary Chicago teacher who saw limitless potential where others saw only limits, died on Wednesday, June 24, in South Carolina at the age of 78. Collins became a national hero ...

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CHICAGO (WLS) -- Pioneering education, education activist and school founder Marva Collins died Wednesday night in South Carolina at age 78, according to her son. Collins started West Side Preparatory ...

Subscribe to The St. Louis American‘s free weekly newsletter for critical stories, community voices, and insights that matter. Sign up Legendary Chicago educator Marva Collins passed away at the age ...

After working as a substitute teacher for 14 years in Chicago public schools, Collins cashed in her $5,000 in pension savings and opened Westside Preparatory School in 1975. The school originally ...

When Marva Collins grew tired of the traditional approach to classroom learning, she opened a school in her home. Today, the legendary educator is esteemed as the woman who taught children who others ...

BLUFFTON, S.C. — Marva Collins, a former substitute teacher whose success at educating poor Black students in a private school she founded made her a candidate for secretary of education and the ...

"Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be, and he will become as he can and should be." -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Marva Collins is an outstanding ...

CINCINNATI, March 23 (UPI) -- U.S. educator Marva Collins threatened to have her name removed from two Cincinnati-area schools named after her, saying she has no relationship with them. The ...

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