Stephanie Banchero

One might assume that Meztli Santa Maria's background--she comes from an immigrant working-class family and attends a low-income school where most students fail state exams--puts her at a disadvantage when...

A Chicago archdiocese principal and a middle school teacher were honored Monday as two of the top Catholic educators in the country by the National Catholic Education Association. Thomas Sedor,...

A series of computer glitches, printing mistakes, labeling blunders and human error by school and testing officials have conspired to seriously delay the state's 2006 school report cards, making Illinois...

Chicago Public Schools pupils lag behind their peers in other large urban school districts on national science exams, according to data released Wednesday. Only 8 percent of Chicago 4th graders...

Chicago teacher Jason Carter darts back and forth in front of his all-boys 3rd-grade class tossing a plush, orange-and-white soccer ball into the air. "Aaric," he calls out, pitching the...

A decade ago, vocational education students might have spent their time rebuilding engines, welding sheet metal or learning to cook and sew. But on a recent afternoon, vocational students at...

Writing, which has long taken a back seat to reading and math in Chicago's public schools, could soon become an integral part of student promotion decisions. District officials are working...

The Chicago Teachers Union sued the city's first virtual charter school on Wednesday, arguing that the home-based school violates state law and, therefore, should not receive public money. The lawsuit,...

A day after a gunman executed five Amish girls in a Pennsylvania schoolhouse, educators across Illinois vowed Tuesday to tighten their security and in some cases find new ways to...

Monday's rampage at an Amish school in Pennsylvania, the nation's third deadly school shooting in less than a week, was another in a series of attacks in which four exurban...