Education
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Editorial: Stevenson's move to later start time a local test caseNov 01, 2015 10:00 pm - The toughest part about change often is finding someone to be first. On the issue of pushing school start times back later in the morning to be more in line with identif...
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Grayslake District 46 trying to tighten travel expense policyOct 31, 2015 7:29 am - Grayslake Elementary District 46 board members are exploring tighter guidelines for expense reimbursement when traveling for business. School board President Steven Stra...
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Nontenured faculty at University of Chicago files to unionize
Oct 31, 2015 1:00 am - Nontenure-track faculty at the University of Chicago have filed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board to unionize, the Chicago Sun-Times has learned. They a...
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Editorial: Let's not kid ourselves about what Illinois school report cards sayOct 30, 2015 11:00 pm - It is difficult to draw any sort of detailed conclusions from the latest release of the state school report cards. The results so far are so fragmented that it's hard to...
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Suburban superintendents to vent to state leader about new testOct 30, 2015 5:44 am - About 20 suburban high school superintendents are meeting Monday with State Superintendent of Education Tony Smith to vent their frustrations about poor performance resu...
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Incomplete state test results frustrate suburban schoolsOct 30, 2015 5:30 am - Mountains of demographic data, ACT scores and a new way to mark math competence among schoolchildren throughout Illinois are among highlights of the Illinois Report Card...
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Illinois students less white, more Hispanic, report card showsOct 30, 2015 5:22 am - What kind of student attended public school in Illinois last school year? And how did the Class of 2015 do on its ACT college-entrance examination? Data released Thursda...
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Income level affects ACT resultsOct 30, 2015 5:00 am -
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ACT vs. PARCC: Which test shows if high schoolers are ready for college?Oct 30, 2015 5:00 am - Divergent results from two tests measuring how prepared Illinois students are for college are causing much consternation among suburban educators. Results from the ACT c...
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Only 28% of Illinois 8th-graders passed algebra, but is that bad?Oct 30, 2015 4:35 am - Editor's note: A previous version of this story said that 25.4 percent of 8th grade students in Illinois passed algebra. The state has updated its numbers to reflect...