Parents go back to school to help their kids learn

Sitting on the floor in the front of the classroom, first-graders at 13th & Green Elementary School followed along as their teacher led a lesson. Step by step, Ann Marie Cupo helped the eager youngsters build a sentence.

Texting language weaves its way into school assignments

Clarissa De La Paz said she has caught herself writing at school like she texts with her friends.

The homework club

Now homework doesn't have to be done at home, thanks to the Hillcrest Central School's homework club.

Ask LH: How Should I Organise My School Work?

Dear Lifehacker, I will be going into year 11 next year and I am wondering what the best way to stay organised is for senior school. The problem with individual exercise books for each subject is that I hate sticking in handout sheets so I just shove them in the back and usually lose them in the black depths of my bag. I have seen people with all their subjects in one binder, but if there is as ...

Retired teacher brings his experience back to the classroom

Richard DeMuth has long since been retired from teaching professionally, but these days a classroom is exactly where you might find him.DeMuth, 71, spends four days a week in Jenny Lorsch’s sixth-grade bilingual class at Coleman Elementary School in Elgin, helping students with English as a second language and math.He previously taught Latin at Streamwood High School and English at Canton Middle ...