Stephanie Banchero

A record number of Illinois high school students took Advanced Placement exams last year, but the proportion of them who passed the rigorous end-of-course tests continued to decline, according to...

While Illinois residents are focused on election season and budget woes, the state's top education officials have quietly pushed through a sweeping agenda that will transform how students are tested,...

Six years after Mayor Richard Daley launched a bold initiative to close down and remake failing schools, Renaissance 2010 has done little to improve the educational performance of the city's...

The Chicago Public Schools system is overhauling its Career and Technical Education program to provide about 25,000 teens the skills they'll need to land well-paying jobs -- such as those...

The Chicago Public Schools system is overhauling its Career and Technical Education program to provide about 25,000 teens the skills they'll need to land well-paying jobs -- such as those...

In a Harlem classroom late one afternoon, 20 4-year-olds in ties and plaid skirts sat cross-legged on a carpet, counting to 20 in French. A mile north, doctors and dentists...

Shantell Thomas stood in front of her son's strawberry-flavored birthday cake, jaw clenched, knuckles white from the ferocious grip she had on the 10-inch carving knife. A dozen rowdy youngsters...

Shantell Thomas stood in front of her son's strawberry-flavored birthday cake, jaw clenched, knuckles white from the ferocious grip she had on the 10-inch carving knife. A dozen rowdy youngsters...

Taking aim at a loophole used to exclude academically weak 11th-graders from state testing, Illinois education officials said this week they want to create a single standard to determine when...