Casey Banas

Virginia Kent, a teacher at Sandburg Elementary School, Wheaton, is one of three Illinois winners of the Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics Teaching. Kent was selected for her innovative...

When Kate Shindle arrived for her freshman year at Northwestern University three years ago, she had driven 16 hours in a van with her parents. She returned to school Friday...

A Wheaton resident is trying for the second time to kick school board candidate Robert Davis off the Nov. 4 ballot. Late last month, three candidates for Wheaton Warrenville Unit...

Three seats are up for election to the Hinsdale Elementary District 181 school board, and seven candidates are running. That may not be enough. If petition challenges filed by two...

Bensenville elementary school teachers are working under a new four-year contract that gives them raises and better benefits in exchange for a longer workday and work year. Pay for beginning...

For Nadine Youssef, news anchor Diane Sawyer was the pot of gold at the end of a 900-mile rainbow. Nadine, an 8th grader at Madison Junior High School in Naperville,...

Students and teachers who want to know what life is like when the sun never sets will be able to communicate by computer next month with an Argonne National Laboratory...

Derek Box was not intimidated by the insides of the old videocassette recorder he brought from home to Camp Invention class. The VCR has hundreds of parts, but Derek, a...

Natalie Unmuth plucked a spider wart flower from her family's back-yard garden Tuesday morning and crumbled it into a tube of ethanol in her science camp class, producing a pinkish...

Catherine Young, a senior at Lake Forest High School, has been named by the White House as one of two Presidential Scholars for Illinois. Young and Douglas Callahan of Hinsdale...