Stephanie Banchero

Faced with ballooning costs and stagnating government funding, the Chicago Public Schools system is increasingly tapping a new pipeline: philanthropic and corporate donors. Last fiscal year, private groups and individuals...

Who knew the so-called math wars could get so heated? Readers made this the most e-mailed story of the week at chicagotribune.com. ---------- For nearly two decades, a battle has...

Nearly 300 top executives from a global financial services company descended on the Sherman ElementarySchool on Thursday to lend their hands--and their spirits--to a South Side elementary school that is...

For nearly two decades, a battle has raged over the best way to teach elementary and high school math. On one side sit fundamentalists, who prefer old-fashioned drilling and a...

The vast majority of the nation's teachers attend colleges that have low admission standards, low graduation requirements, confusing curricula and faculty disconnected from the realities of teaching in today's schools,...

For freshmen at the Urban Prep Charter Academy for Young Men, the first day of school Tuesday ushered in more than just a new building and new faces--it brought some...

Eleven-year-old Dalvinepps Boswell used to dread going to Sherman Elementary School. But this year is different. "I'm excited," he said as he raced across the playground during an open house...

Scores on the SAT college entrance exam dropped sharply this year, with the 2006 graduating class posting the most dramatic decline in test scores in more than three decades, according...

It's the opening hour on the first day of school at Rauner College Prep, but Principal Eric Thomas already is warning students that some of them might have to stay...

The state's high school graduating class of 2006 posted the highest average ACT score--20.5 out of a possible 36--since Illinois mandated that every high school junior take the college entrance...