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Irving Kids Thrive on Spirit of Learning
From: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: 19930328
Author:Mary A. Johnson
Washington Irving School is on Vito Marzullo Street in the Tri-Taylor community, a Near West Side area where you can see the brush strokes of gentrification.
The key to what goes on there is in the school's name.
It's the spirit of American author Irving, the man who wrote Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, and it inhabits the school's walls and fills the minds of those in search of it.
"Our philosophy is that kids learn at their own rate and if you give them a rich learning environment they will grab onto everything" said Madeleine Maraldi, the school's principal. "They ...
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