A top Chicago charter school has done great things for students, but won’t recognize strong teacher support for a union Chicago Math and Science Academy is a charter school on Chicago’s far north side ...

An initiative that blends intensive math tutoring with a group-counseling intervention to keep kids from getting involved in violent activity will soon be offered to up to 1,000 adolescent boys in a ...

After school, in a classroom with lights off and the window shades drawn, kids on the Whitney Young math team sit in pairs. Their teacher flashes a problem on the ...

Adding math talk to story time at home is a winning equation for children’s math achievement, according to new research from the University of Chicago. Even children who used the app with their ...

A robotics team from Chicago Math and Science Academy will compete in the FIRST Tech Challenge World Championship for the first time at the end of April. New Release: Farm, merge, grow and expand your ...

Think your math skills are up to snuff? Try these word problems, geared for 7th to 9th graders (answers at end): 1) You plan a train trip from Chicago to Portland, Ore. The distance between the cities ...

Longtime educator José Torres has been selected as the interim CEO of Chicago Public Schools, where he has previously overseen a network of 25 schools in South Side communities, pending approval by ...

In July, in a packed classroom in downtown Chicago, a group composed mostly of early elementary teachers and child care workers read a story about “Wendi,” a fictional preschool teacher who loves ...

Prof. Emeritus Max S. Bell, an influential scholar of mathematics education who co-authored the widely-used curriculum Everyday Mathematics, died March 6. He was 90. A longtime professor at the ...