Duncan joins Knight Commission on athletics
Former Sec. of Ed. joins the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics and says he hopes to foster and protect both athletics and academics at US colleges.
A rare school shooting kills 4 in Saskatchewan
A school shooting in Saskatchewan is a rare event for Canada, but it happened on Jan. 22. A 17-year-old has been charged with murder.
School Choice Week in America, 2016
School choice rallies are set for around the country this week. Laws surrounding school choice, passing anew, are also being challenged in court.
Blizzard in Baltimore, Jan. 22-23, 2016
A snowstorm brings a standstill to several parts of Md. and other eastern states. States of emergency are in effect and schools closed.
Movie review: Caged No More
We give the movie low marks for quality, high marks for calling attention to human trafficking and the sex trade, which touches the US in many ways.
IL budget problem hits colleges & college students
Colleges in IL sound an alarm (for a few months) that the state's budget impasse could result in greatly reduced college opportunity.
PARCC is a test worth taking, IL T.O.Y. says
2 teachers of the year have written op-eds in different publications, saying they have examined PARCC tests and find them to be tests worth taking.
Highest prime number so far has 22 mil digits
The highest prime number discovered so far is a Marsenne prime with 22.3 million digits: 2<sup>74,207,281</sup>–1.
Show choir bus engulfed in flames
A bus carrying the show choir from Wheaton Warrenville South High School caught fire Friday. Everybody's OK, and the group won 1st place at the contest.
Suburban teen killed in Phoenix murder-suicide
A double-shooting that killed a McHenry Co. girl, 16, in Phoenix, Ariz., leaves a family in mourning back in Illinois.