ACT scores in city jump, but they&#39;re still too low
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The average ACT score rose in Illinois for the second year in a row, with Chicago scores climbing at double the state&#39;s rate, new data showed Tuesday.
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By Marc Pendleton Staff Writer  DAYTON -- The real test for Aaron Pogue is this morning's ACT exam. That four-hour grinder should be easy compared to his Friday night gig.
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City officials Thursday acknowledged 2003 crime figures were way off. What looked like a drop in crime to historic lows turned out to be a 4 percent rise.
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SOUTH Australia&#39;s students have shown improvement in an international science and mathematics study last held a decade ago, and defied a national trend.
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Thinking small may be the next big thing at American high schools. From Oregon to New York, school districts are scaling down to combat problems that are very big indeed: high dropout rates, sinking test scores and low attendance.
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US eighth-graders are gaining on their peers across the globe in science and math, but fourth-graders are being passed as their test scores remain stagnant, according to an international review of school performance.
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Some 2,500 teachers in the city are being measured on how much their students improve on standardized tests.
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Business is abysmal at local moviehouses. Weekend attendance was off 27 percent from the 2004 low reached the previous weekend. The opening of the SouthSide Works Cinemas 10 on Friday should more than make
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Average scores on the ACT college entrance exam rose for the first time in seven years, with the high school class of 2004 improving modestly across all subjects and most ethnic groups.
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The nation&#39;s capital of intravenous drug use is not New York or Miami, not Chicago or Detroit - but Fresno. It is an unlikely distinction for a city of fewer than 500,000
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The city remained at high terror alert yesterday, despite the federal government&#39;s move to lower its threat level for high-profile financial institutions in New York, New Jersey and Washington, officials said.
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More schools in England were judged to be failing last year - but as a proportion,  fewer were in such trouble.
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Many don&#39;t realize they are eligible; others feel application forms are too complicated to fill out. By Justin Pope / Associated Press.
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Until Sunday, the Philadelphia Eagles hadn&#39;t played a football game in this town in 20 years. As far as the demoralized Detroit Lions and their deflated fans were concerned, it wasn&#39;t long enough.
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The high school class of 2006 got stuck with a new, longer version of the SAT and didn't fare well on it. Average reading and math scores fell a total of seven points &#151; the sharpest decline in 31 years.
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Graduation rates for Division I student-athletes increased slightly to 77 percent this year, but men's basketball, baseball and football still continued to fall below that national average.
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The difficult game with prep-school roots is gaining a small bounce outside the East Coast.