Stephanie Banchero

Chicago public elementary school pupils will spend two hours every day reading and each school will have a dedicated "reading specialist" under a new plan to elevate stagnant reading scores....

Illinois' high school graduating class of 2001 posted the highest average ACT score ever recorded in the state, good enough to rank it 12th in the country. Last year's senior...

Illinois' year-old teacher recertification program is operating with almost no oversight, allowing teachers to claim professional development credits for gambling at the racetrack, enrolling in Tai Chi classes and learning...

National math test results released Thursday show that 80 percent of Illinois' 4th graders and 74 percent of its 8th graders failed to demonstrate a proficiency in the subject. Both...

As I wandered the banks of the Baraboo River toward the Big Top tent, an ornate circus wagon rumbling beside me and a circus barker coaxing me toward Jo Jo...

Fifty-two Illinois high school students, including 36 in the Chicago area, received the highest possible score on the ACT college entrance exam in the last school year, more than twice...

In the first year of Illinois' expensive and ambitious new high school exam, about 40 percent of the state's 11th graders failed in reading, writing or math, according to preliminary...

Illinois State Board of Education officials said they will issue a warning list of academically troubled elementary schools for the first time in three years, and most of Chicago's public...

As Arne Duncan and Michael W. Scott take the helm of the Chicago Public Schools, they must find a way to energize a stalled reform movement and satisfy an impatient...

Mayor Richard Daley on Tuesday appointed Arne Duncan, an obscure deputy schools official, to lead the country's third-largest school system out of what Daley has called a period of stagnation....