Musicals at IL high schools, April 2016
Musicals are in full swing in April throughout Illinois. And in related news, Salem Comm H.S. broke an opening night attendance record last month.
Railcar implosion physics stacks the deck
A railcar can implode, given a sufficient difference in air pressure outside compared to air pressure inside the railcar.
Geometry PARCC question: equidistant in plane
Circles are defined as all points in a plane equidistant from a given point, the center. All radii of a circle are congruent by definition.
Terrorists kill more than 90 in Belgium, Iraq
Terrorist attacks from the US to the Middle East, and now to Belgium, have killed dozens of people. Officials offer condolences, work to combat terrorism.
Law school case serves as a college caveat
Beware promises colleges and grad schools make about employment after attending: some of the numbers are cooked.
Would cutting football shock IL into a budget?
Should IL do something drastic to try to get the state government to approve a budget for the current fiscal year? What a disgrace!
Charters suspend blacks more than whites
Black students and students with disabilities are still getting out-of-school suspensions more frequently than whites, esp. in charters.
Suburban H.S. performs mock slave auction skit
A skit that mocked a slave auction, performed by a few white suburban kids, offended students from a mostly-black school on Chicago's South Side.
Geometry PARCC question: diagonal length
The diagonal of a square can be determined using the Pythagorean Theorem or, just as well, with trigonometry.
March is Music in Our Schools Month in the US
Students, teachers, and everyone is recognizing it, celebrating it, and singing it in many ways from elementary schools to state houses.