Charles Kuner

Charles Kuner was born and bred in Chicago, and he received his B.A. in History at Roosevelt University. At Northeastern State University he earned two masters, one in Education and the other in Urban Sociology. Charles taught Social Sciences at Farragut Career Academy High School for 42 years. For the Chicago Teacher’s Union newspaper he reviewed books in the field of education. He has had articles published in professional educational journals on peer group counseling, death education, the value of career education, and the use of American autobiographies such as the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass to motivate student writing. Charles has written personal opinion columns for the Tribune, the Sun Times, and the Defender on many topics ranging from education to civil rights. He is particularly interested in the social sciences, classical music, sports, health/disease topics, and fiction.