Until my recent appointment to the Illinois Senate, I was the secretary of the Illinois State Board of Education. That means I was a member of the board at the time we adopted the Culturally Respon… ...

The Illinois State Board of Education on Wednesday released its newly-updated educational standards for world languages, replacing ones that were adopted in 1997.

A document that edits the standards teachers are held to across the State of Illinois has been approved to move forward.

DECATUR - Just reading the Illinois State Learning Standards used to be enough to bring on a headache: One goal and its subheads in one subject takes up several printed ...

Eight states will work cooperatively with the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning to create and implement plans to draft statewide social-emotional learning standards and ...

Illinois students could be held to new standards for school testing, a shift the state school board says will better prepare them for college and postsecondary education careers while accurately ...

Illinois students could be held to new standards for school testing, a shift the state school board says will better prepare them for college and postsecondary education careers while accurately me… ...

Just three states currently have state social-emotional learning standards that span all grade levels: Illinois, West Virginia, and Kansas, CASEL researchers found.

Illinois education officials want to lower the benchmarks for students to be considered proficient in math and reading on state tests, arguing their hardest-in-the-nation standards have led high ...

The new Culturally Responsive Teaching and Learning Standards are a step in the right direction. The standards will help to prepare new teachers to become culturally responsive by intentionally ...

Scores show 2,715 schools, representing 547 districts, in Illinois met or exceeded state education standards for the past year. The number has climbed from the 2,582 schools that passed in 2002-03.

The Illinois Board of Education is lowering test scoring thresholds to align with national standards — a change that could raise proficiency rates this spring.