During its meeting on October 28, the AUSD Board of Education focused on Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium, an annual ...

As poverty rates rise, reading proficiency rates tend to fall. But poverty is not destiny, and some schools and districts hugely outperform what might be expected of them based solely on which ...

New analysis compares literacy vs. poverty rates for 10,000 districts, 42,000 schools and 3 million kids. Is your school a ...

Old testing benchmarks in Illinois caused many students to underestimate how prepared they were for college. The new ...

The state of Illinois released new student performance data the day before Halloween, touting better reading and math proficiency and a higher graduation rate. What state officials didn’t emphasize is ...

Lawlor said the improvement follows the district’s implementation of a new literacy program designed to strengthen early ...

Double Jeopardy abandoned the Halloween theme for more traditional categories. Hickey began the round with “Women of Country Music” for $1,200: “Her 1961 country hit ‘Crazy’ was written by Willie ...

Frank Peasant tallied three of Memphis' five rushing scores, the defense held Rice to 212 yards, and the No. 25 Tigers kept their College Football Playoff hopes alive Friday with a 38-14 Halloween ...