Students’ grades soaring, just like their hovercraft
It sounds like a lawnmower, runs on unleaded gasoline, looks like an oversized Matchbox car and glides like a dream. The royal-blue hovercraft was a six-month labor of love for...
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Schools fear lawmakers will cram in more courses
As far as students this year in teacher Lionel Allen's history class are concerned, the 1920s were nearly non-existent. Same for the Depression. The Oak Park and River Forest High...
With solemn march, the city remembers
Satellites beamed Polish-language broadcasts into Chicago parishes. Bells tolled at midday from hundreds of church towers. And thousands formed a memorial procession that stretched several miles across a section of...
Minnesota rampage reverberates in school hallways
It was just a training exercise that sent police officers swarming through Downstate Dupo High School last week in search of an armed killer. But Principal Jonathan Heerboth knows that...
Teachers get sweet reward
Before landing in Michelle Navarre's classroom, 5th-grader Michael Johnson despised reading. At school, he rarely picked up a book. For pleasure, never. But now, Michael tears through two or three...
Teacher’s arrest stirs skeptics
A longtime elementary-school band teacher's arrest on sexual abuse charges--and conflicting accounts from police and school officials about who might have known what and when--has left many in working-class Berwyn...
Teacher’s arrest stirs skeptics
A longtime elementary-school band teacher's arrest on sexual abuse charges--and conflicting accounts from police and school officials about who might have known what and when--has left many in working-class Berwyn...
Governor targeting violent video games
One of the hottest video games this Christmas season features characters that indiscriminately maim each other and have sex with prostitutes. But if Gov. Rod Blagojevich has his way, Illinois...
No Child Left Behind
As assistant superintendent for instruction at Wheaton Warrenville Unit School District 200, Margo Sorrick typically uses the end of the summer to tweak curriculum and jump-start staff development. Instead, she...
Deciphering the results
The Illinois school report card was designed to give parents and taxpayers some basic, useful information about their schools. Then came No Child Left Behind, the federal program that holds...