Illinois students plateau in reading, math
Only a third of Illinois grade school students have the skills needed to proficiently read a work of literature or an informational text, according to the results of a national...
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State investigating test irregularities
Illinois education officials are investigating whether some students may have received improper help on the state's standardized exams. The Illinois State Board of Education launched the probe when more than...
High school test scores fall to a new low
About half of Illinois public high school students flunked state exams in reading, math and science this year, the worst performance in the history of the 11th-grade Prairie State Achievement...
New study shows U.S. students miss boat on geography
Ask a group of twelfth-graders how the Great Lakes formed, and about half can pinpoint the primary cause: glaciations. Quiz eighth-grade students about the geography of the Southwest, and a...
Quinn, regional superintendents to meet for funding talks
With the funding for their salaries cut, representatives for the state's regional schools superintendents and Gov. Pat Quinn plan to meet next week to determine how the education officials and...
Quinn signs education bills
Illinois schoolchildren will get a lesson in peacekeeping as early as kindergarten starting this fall, under a suite of education bills that Gov. Pat Quinn signed into law today at...
Quinn signs education bills
Illinois schoolchildren will get a lesson in peacekeeping as early as kindergarten starting this fall, under a suite of education bills that Gov. Pat Quinn signed into law today at...
State schools again must make do with less
Illinois public schools will take a $269.4 million hit next year after Gov. Pat Quinn signed a budget into law last week that further pinched education funding. Quinn slashed $376...
Thaddeus Kowalski, 1931-2011
Cook County Judge Thaddeus Kowalski cooperated with federal authorities who took down a raft of corrupt judges during Operation Greylord in the 1980s. Judge Kowalski knew his cooperation endangered his...
Teachers union endorses Obama
The nation's largest teachers union voted Monday in Chicago to support President Barack Obama's 2012 re-election bid despite discord between rank-and-file teachers and the administration over key education reforms. Seventy-two...