Clout goes to college
At a time when it's more competitive than ever to get into the University of Illinois, some students with subpar academic records are being admitted after interference from state lawmakers...
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Illinois has joined a growing list of states that favor common learning guidelines for math and English, a movement that could lead to national testing and what supporters say is...
Public is still guarded over flu
More than a dozen schools across the Chicago area will remain shuttered Monday, heading into the second week of a swine flu outbreak that appears to have sickened nearly 100...
School’s out for flu
On a day when Johnny Swek would normally have been taking a spelling test, the 1st-grader was kicking back in the library, playing computer games and flipping through picture books....
Barrington student charged in 2 rapes
A Barrington High School senior was charged over the weekend with raping two female students, one of them a minor, authorities said Monday. The attacks occurred at a house in...
School newspapers: High school newspapers chart new course in tumbling economy
As newspapers reinvent themselves, high school newsrooms are locked in their own transition amid the economic tumult that has jolted the industry. Several school newspapers in Illinois now publish online...
Illinois to track student progress
Illinois will begin tracking schoolchildren as they progress from preschool through college, logging the schools they attend, the educators who teach them and the high school courses they take, state...
Senior prank: Our tine is up
Proving the spring rite of senior pranks is alive and well, several students planted hundreds of forks in the lawn of their north suburban high school this week. Beneath it,...
Wife slain in Wilmette murder-suicide never worried about husband’s violent past
Eight months after his release from prison in 2000 for killing his wife, Richard Wiley married a popular secretary at the Wilmette church he had attended since childhood—despite misgivings from...
Wilmette man in murder, suicide had a violent history
A Wilmette man who police say shot his wife and her teenage son to death Monday before taking his own life had spent 15 years behind bars for the murder...