A fence built by District 709 in Morton will help to improve student safety near a busy street, and it may also allow more students to get higher levels of physical activity. This can’t be bad.
District 7 (K-8) hopes to expand a home visit program, where a few teachers visited students and their families in their homes. Both students and teachers who participated in 2011-12 said the program was beneficial.
The Chicago Teachers Union and Mayor Rahm Emanuel appear to be working toward ironing out differences in order to avoid a strike. There’s still a long way to go if a strike is to be avoided, but so far, things don’t look terrible. The issue of a longer day, which was part of recent compromises, will keep coming up, though, so this is a preview of things to come.
The US Department of Education announced Wednesday that it will give more than $21.5 million to 43 states in order to assist low-income students with fees for Advanced Placement testing this school year.
Comprehensive Musical Coverage in Illinois High Schools, AY 2010-11: schoolsnapshots.org/arts/musicals.pl Although information from about 100 high schools in Illinois has not yet been received, we…
Chicago Voxitatis, through our researcher, Alicia Mills, has filed Freedom of Information Act requests with every high school in Illinois in order to determine what…
This is an abstract. Our full report is here. On Oct. 18, the Chicago Tribune published a huge article about the ISAT test, which the…
On Nov. 11, the Chicago Tribune ran a 4-Web-page article (link), which is pretty big for that newspaper, saying that high schoolers in suburban Chicago…
We reported, as did the New York Times and NBC Nightly News, that there is a profound achievement gap between black students and white students…
About a month ago, US Education Secretary Arne Duncan gave the keynote speech at a conference for the American Bar Association in Chicago. The Chicago…
Based on our analysis of Illinois public school report card data released Oct. 30 by the Illinois State Board of Education, we can see plainly…
On the school report cards issued by the Illinois State Board of Education on Oct. 30, our analysis shows that 185 public high schools, out…
Full coverage: here (pics included). Abstract: The Illinois State Board of Education announced the eight finalists for the state’s Teacher of the Year on Sept….