Chicago Tribune

Doctors should begin teaching adolescent sex education, a new study argues, because schools in Illinois aren't doing a good enough job. The study, to be published Thursday in the American journal Obstetrics & Gynecology, found that one-third of sex education teachers in Illinois public schools were not teaching comprehensive sex ed.

No school district in the nation has yet managed what Chicago officials proposed last week: a sweeping, simultaneous overhaul of a cluster of failing schools.

Juniors and seniors now have until Dec. 1 each year to bar military officials from being able to obtain private information about them, said Mike Vaughn, a CPS spokesman.

Speaking at the annual PUSH Excel Martin Luther King Jr. scholarship breakfast Monday, comedian Bill Cosby focused on an issue that crosses racial lines: parenting. "People don't know how to parent, and they don't care," he said. "Babies are having babies."

As more teachers post up-to-the-minute grade information online, students are adjusting the way they approach their studies—and their parents.

Critics see harm; officials cite court rulings, Virginia Tech
Jill Manges was in her French history class at Eastern Illinois University when she felt the symptoms—the waves of nausea, the tightness in the throat—that signaled an impending flashback

The once ubiquitous cupcake, iced to perfection and colorfully sprinkled, may be slowly fading from the school landscape

For the coming wave of autistic adults, opportunities are scarce and resources are few. But for Alice Smith's son, the world awaits.

Officials find themselves in the unusual position of having planned the steps a staff will, or won't, take to permit a child to die on school grounds. (Beth Jones with her daughter Katie, who suffers from severe cerebral palsy

WASHINGTON - Too little milk, sunshine and exercise: It's an anti-bone trifecta. And for some kids, shockingly, it's leading to rickets, the soft-bone scourge of the 19th century.

The few children left at First Presbyterian Church will have to clean out their cubbies at the end of the month, when the historic Head Start center there closes after more than four decades.

School districts looking for clarity on how to handle the new Illinois law mandating a moment of silence at the start of the school day will have to wait.

For many Chicago high school dropouts or those at risk of leaving school, the thought of developing a career in the culinary field can be as foreign as a seven-course dinner at a fancy restaurant

A few months after Illinois high school students posted the lowest scores ever on the state achievement exam, state education officials are investigating whether the test, or the scoring process, was flawed.

Evanston-Skokie School District 65 will ignore new legislation mandating a moment of silence in Illinois public schools after trying unsuccessfully to seek a waiver that would free the district from following the law, board members said.