Washington, DC-First Lady Laura Bush will award five museums and five libraries the 2008 National Medal for Museum and Library Service, thenation's highest honor, at a White House ceremony on

Jonathon Paul,of Skokie, Katherine O'Connor, and Andrew Goldfein are three of 31 Illinois students who recently took a test screening them for possible participation in the U.S. Physics Team.

The Mental Health Association of the North Shore is sponsoring a writing competition on What It's Like, or Must Be Like, to Grow Up as a Female in the 21st Century.

Freshmen entering Niles West High School next fall will be divided by gender in their home room classes.

Cook County Circuit Court Judge Thomas R. Mulroy offered advice on how to deal with the often confusing legal system as if affects parents and children.

Darya Kiktenko, a 12 year old student at Lincoln Junior High, was one of 13 winners chosen from 1,500 entries for a poster contest sponsored by the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportu

Ida Crown Jewish Academy, located in Chicago, is interested in buying the Rand McNally property as a potential site.

52 Meyer School students generously took part in a Jump Rope fundraiser, raising $1,900 for the American Heart Association.

Paul Swanson will serve as District 219's first ever physical welfare director effective August 11.

Despite the unusually difficult weather, the 26,000 square foot addition to the McCracken Middle School is on budget and set to open by the beginning of the 2008-09 school year.

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Jaquelyn Udell Smith, a security officer at Niles West High School for many years, was someone who took a special interest in kids, even making friends with the "troublemakers."

The ELL (English Language Learning) program is vital in serving the diverse student population at Niles North and West High Schools .

After one year, Superintendent Frances McTague of Skokie Elementary School District 68 says that full day kindergarten is a comlete success. Teachers and parents are both pleased with the benefits of additional learning at this level.

Jan Schakowsky at Old Orchard Junior High School: Jan Shakowsky at Old Orchard Junior High School

When the school day has ended, it doesn't mean that the fun and learned have also.

Elementary school students are being offered the chance to work with high school teachers and students this summer getting extra experience in a variety of science topics.