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Say Something Week events shed light on yearlong campaign to keep schools safe

May 21, 2019 at 11:59 p.m.

Among Nathan Ryan’s earliest memories of elementary school is his first active shooter drill. “I remember it because this kid got up from his desk and freaked out. He didn’t...

A new survey shows that more than half of Americans couldn't pass a U.S. civics test.

Political science teachers explain why more than half of Americans would fail a civics test and why that’s not the end of the world

May 21, 2019 at 11:58 p.m.

A majority of Americans today would fail a U.S. Citizenship test. In fact, six in 10 surveyed recently did. The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation surveyed 41,000 Americans with basic...

Southland College Prep’s Performance in the Round troupe wins state for third consecutive year

May 21, 2019 at 11:57 p.m.

“Sarafina” is a powerful story about a young black South African woman struggling for freedom during apartheid. It is the subject of a musical and movie and an adaptation of...

Barbara Mueller, left, competed in the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne, Australia. She didn't medal in her event, the 80-meter hurdles, but treasures her Olympic participation medal.

Former Olympian reflects on her days as hurdler in the 1956 games: ‘You were pretty much on your own to train’

May 21, 2019 at 11:55 p.m.

Barbara Mueller learned the skill that would become her claim to fame right in her own backyard as a child taking a hop, skip and a jump from the back...

Certified school nurse Linda Vollinger talks to a student in the health office Wednesday, Aug. 22, 2018 at Stagg High School in Palos Hills.

So much more than Band-Aids: Youth health issues increasing as the average Illinois school nurse serves 2,900 students

May 21, 2019 at 11:55 p.m.

It was just after 3 p.m. on a Friday earlier this month when Janet Callahan got a call that a student was in distress. The certified school nurse juked through...

How well do you know the Southland? Take our quiz and find out.

May 21, 2019 at 11:56 p.m.

So you think you know the Southland? Take our quiz and see if you can name the site and town or neighborhood in each scenario.

A makeshift memorial of flowers where 15-year-old Amira Nairat, a freshman at Richards High School in Oak Lawn, was struck by a hit-and-run driver on Monday. The girl later died at an area hospital.

In less than a day, mourners raise funds to build well in memory of Richards student killed by suspected drunk driver

May 21, 2019 at 11:53 p.m.

In less than one day, the Richards High School community raised more than $2,500 for a life-sustaining water well to be constructed in the African nation of Mali in memory...

The author's grandparents immigrated to the United States from Mexico. As generations pass, some of their traditions and skills have been lost.

Dear Tom Brokaw: What if assimilation was a two-way street?

February 7, 2019 at 2:19 p.m.

Dear Mr. Brokaw, I love your reporting. I love your book, “The Greatest Generation.” I love the way you seem to strive for intelligence and common sense. Which is why...

Kathleen Mesterharm, a finalist for the 2019 Golden Apple Awards for Excellence in Teaching, says, "being a student of English is really being a student of life." Marian Catholic High School

Meet the Golden Apple finalists who teach in the Southland

May 21, 2019 at 11:52 p.m.

Seven of the 32 Illinois high school finalists for Golden Apple Awards for Excellence in Teaching work at schools in the south suburbs and on the South Side. For the...

French teacher Kelly Karstrand goes over work in her French II class at Shepard High School.

Shepard foreign language teacher will head to Senegal on a Fulbright fellowship

May 21, 2019 at 11:52 p.m.

Like a lot of people who teach French, most of what Kelly Karstrand learned about the language and culture came from studying in France and western Europe. But soon, the...

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