Stephanie Banchero

Dominique Harrison snatched the manila folder off the high school counselor's desk and rifled through it. An honor roll student in 8th grade, Dominique was eager to peek at her...

Bishops, priests and nuns gathered at Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago headquarters Thursday to take a stand against a Catholic athletic league that turned away St. Sabina, a predominantly black South...

After steering Mayor Richard Daley's reform of the city's public schools for six years, Gery Chico resigned Thursday as president of the Chicago Board of Education. The surprising resignation comes...

Kristine Janus said her greatest achievement has been teaching her physically disabled younger sister to put on her socks, pull up her shorts and spread peanut butter on a slice...

Elizabeth Dorman has never cheered for the home team at a school basketball game. She has never joined a school club or team. And she doesn't know what it's like...

As a 1st grader who spoke only Korean, Deborah Hong struggled to grasp basic concepts. She had trouble reading and comprehending. When a teacher told her to put "rings" around...

Seventeen-year-old Yogesh Raut is a voracious reader. He reads the daily newspaper. He pores over history textbooks. He digs into encyclopedias. And just for fun, he peruses almanacs. The Illinois...

When Lisa Hutmacher's teacher asked her to compete in the state's ultra-competitive entomology tournament, the Bloomington High School teenager reluctantly agreed. A self-described "nerd," Lisa relished biology, even excelled at...

Classes will be canceled for at least a day this week for thousands of Illinois high school freshmen, sophomores and seniors so that juniors can take the state's new standardized...

A bill introduced Wednesday in the state legislature calls for testing all public school students in reading, writing and arithmetic every year from 3rd grade through 11th grade. The proposal...