Big 10 college football moves to Friday night
A handful of college football games are played on Friday night, side-by-side with high school's Friday Night Lights. Next year, the Big Ten.
Math students shape letters on football field
When students use math, including geometry, to shape letters on a football field, they learn lessons about more than math, such as leadership.
Vote for the Illinois Tollway H.S. cover art contest
The Illinois Tollway sponsors an art contest every year, with cover art for the tollway's map coming from Illinois high school students. VOTE.
Buses crash head-on in Baltimore, killing 6
A school bus collided with a transit bus in Baltimore this morning, killing 6 people, including both drivers, and injuring 10 others.
Airstrikes hit Syrian school, kill > 20, incl. kids
About 14 schoolchildren and several other civilians were killed in Syria as warplanes attacked the village in which their school was located.
Spooky science stories for Halloween: NYT & others
Science experiments sometimes get a little spooky, fascinating, or just plain creepy. Just in time for Halloween, here are a few collections.
Parade to early voting at Stevenson HS
There will be an early voting parade in Lincolnshire, IL Saturday, but new Clinton emails have surfaced that may contain classified information. Or not.
Calif. and U.S. in standoff over a science test
Calif. officials say they shouldn't waste students' time with science tests that don't even test understanding of new science standards. US says they have to.
NAEP reports state-level scores on science test
Scores were released Thursday on the 4th-, 8th-, and 12th-grade science test for NAEP. State-level results might not tell us what we need to know.
President meets with kid science advisors
11 students met with the president and other federal science folks as part of the first-ever kid science advisory team, selected because of their ideas on science.