Articles filed under School Report Cards
-
Report Cards: Lake Co. schools now labeled failuresOct 31, 2011 12:00 am - Just seven months after receiving praise from the state and a national college organization for boosting academic rigor, four Lake County school districts are labeled fa...
-
Jacobs makes big gains in mathOct 31, 2011 12:00 am - There's no secret formula to explain the success juniors at Jacobs High School in Algonquin achieved in a statewide mathematics assessment. The high school jumped 9.3 p...
-
Report Cards: Wheeling High flourishing, but failingOct 31, 2011 12:00 am - Despite national recognition for its efforts in science, technology, engineering and math, the highest average ACT college entrance exam score in school history and more...
-
Report Cards: Richmond still failingOct 31, 2011 12:00 am - Once again, Richmond Elementary School in St. Charles did not make “adequate yearly progress” in getting more students to meet or exceed state goals on standardized read...
-
Report Cards: Lisle students make big stridesOct 31, 2011 12:00 am - There's no silver bullet. But a tougher curriculum, more help for struggling students and better preparation for testing may explain why Lisle Senior High School posted ...
-
Clock running out on No Child Left Behind?Oct 30, 2010 11:00 pm - Hard to say what will become of evaluation system
-
Confused by the alphabet soup? Here are some basic termsOct 29, 2010 12:00 am - No Child Left Behind (NCLB): The landmark 2001 federal legislation that requires schools to meet a rising bar on standardized assessments each year or face academic sanc...
-
Naperville Central raises achievement of students with disabilitiesOct 29, 2010 12:00 am - In a time when high schools are struggling more than ever to meet the increased demands of No Child Left Behind, Naperville Central High School rallied its subgroups to ...
-
Suburban schools improve, but not enoughOct 29, 2010 12:00 am - Suburban schools did better on state assessments this year but not by much. A Daily Herald analysis shows that 57 percent of suburban schools got more kids to meet stat...
-
Three Wauconda schools improve, scores showOct 29, 2010 12:00 am - Students at three Wauconda Unit District 118 schools improved their performance on recent standardized tests enough for the buildings to reach federal goals something t...