Annie E Casey Foundation's 2-generation poverty plan
A serious look at poverty and how it affects schools (and a possible path to a solution) comes from a Baltimore-based foundation.
Football playoff prediction performance in quarterfinals
Last week, we predicted the outcome of the 32 quarterfinal football games in Illinois. We got 24 of them right.
BOA grand national champion: Tarpon Springs, Fla.
Bands of America named the marching band from Tarpon Springs H.S., near Tampa Bay, Fla., grand national champion last night in Indy.
The girl in white on the volleyball court this year
New uniform rules in girls' volleyball require the libero to wear a different color uniform from the other players on her team. We explain.
IL state girls' volleyball champions 2014
We will update this story as championship games are played and/or news reports received. Illinois will name four state champs today in girls' volleyball.
College kids add a new sexuality classification: Asexual
The number of sexual identities is growing, especially among college-aged women (questioning, asexual). Research has been long in coming.
Wash. state to cap class size
Voters narrowly approved a ballot initiative in Washington state that will require schools to reduce class sizes to predefined hard caps.
In IL, with no ocean nearby, a storage table will have to do
Industrial ed students at a central IL junior high study erosion of the ocean floor and other interesting topics, like modeling a real-world situation.
6 Baltimore schools may close in June
Baltimore City may close 6 neighborhood schools. It might save a few dollars, or it might very well destroy some poor communities.
DNA exonerates 2 men convicted of murder in N.C.
DNA evidence was used to clear two convicted rapists and murderers in September. How does that work, and what should we do to fix the problem?