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.
Geometry PARCC question: triangle dilation
When it comes to dilations of triangles, can you recognize similar and congruent parts of the before and after images?
Trump & Clinton win primaries in Illinois
Donald J Trump won the Illinois Republican primary and those in FL and NC. Hillary Clinton won the Democratic primaries in IL, NC, FL, and Ohio.
Algebra 1 PARCC question: exponential websites
Modeling real-world situations sometimes requires a linear model, sometimes an exponential model, sometimes a coffee model.
Commuter train problems in Chicago, Washington
A train-vs-pedestrian accident slowed Metra trains in Chicago's western suburbs, and a tunnel fire in D.C. will prompt a 1-day shutdown tonight.