Darnell Little

Education at Prairie Crossing Charter School in Grayslake can be idyllic at times, as 3rd and 4th graders find "magic spots" in the surrounding fields and woodlands, then write essays...

You have to look long and hard to find a success story like Childs Elementary School. In fact, you have to look long and hard to find Childs at all....

The statistics say Ridgewood High School should succeed on standardized tests. It is a small high school in the middle-class community of west suburban Norridge, where 87 percent of the...

Mirroring a national rise in reports of crime, Illinois last year saw an increase in murders for the first time since 1994, and violent crime crept up across Chicago's suburbs,...

Reports of violent crime increased in the suburbs of Cook County last year, even as Illinois and Chicago recorded fewer major crimes for an unprecedented seventh straight year, according to...

Skokie-based information services provider Bell & Howell Co. announced this week that it has completed a new round of private funding totaling $55 million for its K-12 education Internet company....

With less than four hours to go, Chicagoans are gatxhering across the city to celebrate the new millenium. Large crowds are forming at Navy Pier. People wearing tuxedos are crammed...

For people who are too polite to chatter away on a cellular phone in public where other folks might be annoyed, advanced paging products can be just the ticket. Like...

The legendary three-martini lunch may be dead, but the workday lunch is very much alive--and faster and more creative than ever before. Velocity, variety and value are the watchwords driving...

Every business, not just retailers, had better get on board the Internet or be left in the dust, one of the nation's top Internet networking executives said Tuesday. "Productivity demands...