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Illinois educators are warning high school juniors that the decision earlier this year to cut the writing portion from the ACT exams administered in p...

The Illinois State Board of Education is launching an investigation into 33 Illinois schools, including nine in Chicago, whose Illinois Standards Achi...

The state of Illinois will no longer test its high schoolers on their writing skills, in a move that is designed to cut costs but leads some educators...

During third period your mind wanders. You wonder if you're the only kid in your class who is living in a homeless shelter.

Transform every school into a charter and you'll still have to solve the equation: How to educate students, especially students who often face troubled home lives and come to school woefully unprepared to learn.

Nothing that Paul Vallas, Mayor Daley or Arne Duncan did in the last 15 years has had any significant effect on the number of CPS students who can read, write and do basic math acceptably. It's all an illusion.