1+ hour, 12+ min ago   (74+ words) The vote gives the Rockford Education Association's bargaining team the authority to call a strike." Rockford Education Association takes first legal step to authorize a strike The Rockford Education Association voted this weekend to authorize a strike. According to a…...

5+ day, 11+ hour ago   (305+ words) Most people celebrate'Martin Luther King, Jr.'Day the day of. But two Northern Illinois University groups will come together to help spread King's legacy throughout the week. The Center for Black Studies and the Department of Social Justice Education are…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (144+ words) Perspectives: The kids are alright'Northern Public Radio Perspectives: The kids are alright I see evidence of this in my history classes every day. Initially, students look puzzled when I proclaim, with all due grandiosity, "I am the enemy of the…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (483+ words) The Early Development Instrument or EDI is a tool to measure how a community prepares children for school and where young kids may face the most challenges. Winnebago County is one of a handful of places in the U.S. that use…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (182+ words) Perspective: On dreams and secret anxiety'Northern Public Radio Perspective: On dreams and secret anxiety My high school English teacher, Mrs. Knebles, was old school, who thought the semicolon was the key to the punctuation universe and believed that diagramming sentences…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (315+ words) Our Teachers" Lounge podcast is also a monthly radio show on WNIJ. That radio show has exclusive segments that you don"t get on the podcast. But, in the new year, we want to give you a taste of what…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (228+ words) CHAMPAIGN " University of Illinois System President Tim Killeen announced on Thursday that he will leave his role at the end of his current contract on June 30, 2027. Killeen told IPM News Thursday that he does not have plans yet after stepping…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (200+ words) Happy New Year! But before we get too far into 2026, I want to take one more look back at 2025. We've already shared some of our favorite conversations of this past year, but Teachers' Lounge is even more than the interviews…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (388+ words) On the Teachers' Lounge Radio Show, we're looking back one last time at a few of our favorite conversations of 2025. That includes our sit-down with Joshua Stafford! He's the superintendent at the Vienna High School District, down on the southern…...

1+ mon, 3+ day ago   (1595+ words) Borrowers have spent much of 2025 trying to keep up with dizzying changes to the federal student loan system. The Trump administration and Congress are in the process of overhauling everything from how much Americans can borrow to how quickly they…...