School News

Hispanic students are more numerous on college campuses and in the nation's public schools, a Pew Hispanic Center report says. In addition, more Hispanic young adults report that they have finished high school than ever before.

Illinois students in the graduating Class of 2012 scored higher on the ACT than students in any of the nine states that mandate the ACT for all high school graduates.

The finalists for Maryland Teacher of the Year were announced today. Here they are!

A media advisory from the US Department of Education says US Education Secretary Arne Duncan will visit Perry Hall High School in Baltimore County on Wednesday, Aug. 22, for a little Q&A.

A national leadership organization for secondary students announced several winners from Illinois and Maryland at a recent conference in San Antonio. Congratulations to these hard-working students. Check out the organization.

The US Education Department has published applications for the Race to the Top—District competition, which will make up to $40 million available to individual school districts that show promise of reducing achievement gaps between subgroups of students.

Back-to-school spending was expected to increase this year, following a 2-year decline. Some families in Anne Arundel County, Md., came to an expo at which school supplies were given away for free to students whose families were unable to purchase all the needed supplies.

Catholic schools, facing occasional closures and declining enrollments, might reinvent themselves in order to save their schools and preserve their religious values, if not their edicts.

The Quincy Federation of Teachers was one of five nationwide Innovation Fund grantees. They will use the money to educate their western Illinois community about the Common Core. We have some suggestions.

The back-to-school days, coming everywhere in Maryland before September again, mark the start of what state education officials hope will be a very good year.