Every year as a Chicago Public Schools eighth grade teacher, I am forced to reflect on the memory of my high school application process. I remember arriving at Lane Tech’s village-sized campus on a ...

For more than three decades, grades in American schools and colleges have been going up, up, up. A’s are more common. Failure is rarer than it once was. At the same time, student achievement, as ...

Twelve-year-old Miguel Contreras is missing after leaving Thomas Metcalf School around 5:30 p.m. on Monday. The Illinois State University Police Department asked for the public’s help in locating ...