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While the districts may not all be meeting or exceeding the state standard, their year-over-year progress is outpacing average rates.

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On the first standardized tests since Illinois changed the scores needed to be deemed proficient, the state reports more ...

A “growth” category can measure how the same group of students changed over time, and the State Report Cards do measure growth as well. The report cards also show such things as graduation rates, ...

Four new educational bingo card sets are now available online to support first-grade English instruction through structured, game-based learning. The new resources focus on verbs, adjectives, nouns, ...

There is much blaming and finger-pointing as to why the U.S. isn’t doing better. Some experts say that parents are allowing kids to spend too much time on screens, while others argue that elementary ...

The challenge is that children at this age are still developing language skills. In the past, students would sometimes cry ...

If the recent news of a new mathematics and statistics curriculum for years 0–10 felt familiar, that's because it was.

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The northern lights, also known as the aurora borealis, may be visible in as many as 10 northern states between Tuesday night ...