The placement test for 8th-grade students interested in attending St. Viator High School will be given at 8 to 11:30 a.m. on Jan. 13. Pupils wishing to take the test should bring a check for $20 ...

Computer technology in Orland Park-based Consolidated High School District 230 is about to make inroads into what previously had been one of the few remaining domains of paper and pencils–the ...

The criteria the school district uses to place students in eighth-grade math classes are not adding up, and parents want administrators to take a look at what’s wrong with the equation. The school ...

This month, New York State reported that just 22 percent of the eighth graders who took this year’s Common Core-aligned math test received a passing mark. To find out how you compare with an eighth ...

The State Board of Education voted unanimously Wednesday to remove state incentives encouraging schools to offer Algebra I in 8th grade. The move was both a vote of confidence in the new Common Core ...