Darnell Little

The Illinois high school teacher who shows students how to parallel park and use a rear-view mirror likely earns more than the educator who teaches them to solve quadratic equations...

The first comprehensive statewide assessment of teacher qualifications confirms what anecdotal evidence and studies have suggested for years: Poor and minority children--the students who often need the most help--are most...

With their backpacks and coats scattered along a hallway at Independence Elementary School, a crowd of 5th graders waited for their class to start. It was 8:15 a.m., 45 minutes...

With unprecedented pressure bearing down from Washington, nearly 60 percent of the state's grade schools increased student test scores this year--the most since the Illinois Standards Achievement Test was launched...

Across the Northwest Tollway from Rosemont's gleaming office towers, swank hotels, huge convention center and popular holiday lights display, another, more humble Rosemont subsists. The 87 six-flat apartment buildings north...

As school districts statewide try to balance their budgets by slashing teaching positions, shutting schools and wiping out programs, superintendent salaries continue to soar, with nearly a quarter of local...

For Mubeena Khan, the United States appeared to offer the life that many independent-minded women from India dream of, especially those with college degrees: a career that supports a middle-class...

Barbara Scarborough can't catch a break. First, she lost her production job at a contact lens manufacturer after Sept. 11. "I had a 401(k) and benefits for the first time....

Last year Murphy Elementary, a Northwest Side school whose test scores have been rising in the last few years, took in eight students from a neighboring school that had not...

Even as major crime dropped across Illinois for an unprecedented eighth year in a row, reports of rape spiked, reaching levels not seen since the mid-1990s in some parts of...