They say that in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, the entire landscape of public education has been dramatically ...

Education officials from five statewide organizations are pushing for fundamental changes in the way student achievement is measured each year and how schools are held accountable for meeting the ...

Student proficiency rates in English have increased across the state, with mixed results in math for area districts.

The Illinois State Board of Education recently released school report cards. They show how Illinois, each school and each ...

The Chicago Teachers Union is pushing to expand the 20 “sustainable community schools” in the district. But the model doesn’t ...

Sixth grader Carson Park reads the board at Maroa-Forsyth Middle School in Maroa last week. Maroa-Forsyth high school and ...

Little kids are looking at a lot of dots these days. The theory behind this increasingly popular practice is that an ...

“This will be the first-of-its-kind effort here in the state of Illinois,” he said. “As a state, we adopted new learning standards for math in 2010, but there’s never been a concerted ...

And one of the things you said when it came to math was that Illinois adopted new learning standards for math back in 2010. It's been almost 15 years. And you also added that there's never been a ...

Vision 2030 includes plans for keeping students safe, attracting high-quality educators, enhancing postsecondary success and ...