24/7 LiveChicago & Suburban Cook Co.North SuburbsWest SuburbsSouth SuburbsNW Indiana

Weather Alert

Flood Warning

Watch Live

Weather & Traffic

Charlie Kirk Suspect

Weather

Forecast

I-Team

Investigates

World Cup Ticket Turmoil

Price Tracker

School Testing

AP Photo/Eric Thayer, file

US students' reading, math scores at historic lows

  • Sep 9, 2025

Illinois state education board approves change of test scoring system

  • Aug 13, 2025

Whitney Young celebrates 23 students achieving top ACT score

  • Jun 2, 2025

23 Whitney Young High School students get perfect ACT scores

  • May 30, 2025

ACT college entrance exam will be shortened

  • Jul 17, 2024

Illinois switching to ACT exams for state assessments

  • Jul 5, 2024

Lemont sisters get perfect ACT scores 3 years apart

  • Mar 16, 2024

Math, reading scores for 13-year-olds in US plunge to lowest levels

  • Jun 22, 2023

Latest Videos

0:26

Illinois state education board approves change of test scoring system

  • Aug 13, 2025
1:47

Lemont sisters get perfect ACT scores

  • Mar 14, 2024
4:05

Test Prep Tips: What to know about the ACT and SAT

  • Apr 8, 2023
1:39

CPS math scores mirror nation's historic COVID setbacks for kids

  • Oct 24, 2022
0:35

Test scores show historic COVID setbacks for kids across US

  • Oct 24, 2022
1:27

Indiana student 1st in world to get perfect score on AP calc exam

  • Sep 27, 2022
0:41

Indiana putting $111M toward raising youth literacy rate

  • Aug 22, 2022
1:49

Chicago student achieves perfect ACT score

  • Feb 24, 2022

Latest Stories

Test Prep Tips: What to know about the ACT and SAT tests, and how to get your best score on both

Right now, many high school students are hard at work studying for the ACT. The next round of testing is April 15, which is still enough time to get some last-minute studying in.

  • Apr 8, 2023

How to keep students engaged and motivated, according to Chicago-area educators

Across the country, average test scores on college entrance exams are the lowest they've been in two decades.

  • Jan 22, 2023

Indiana high school student becomes 1st in world to get perfect score on AP calculus exam

"It was pretty surprising," the student said.

  • Sep 27, 2022

Chicago student at Providence St. Mel High School achieves perfect ACT score

"It's amazing," Mario Hoover said. "When I first saw the score, I was surprised. I was exalted, astounded."

  • Feb 24, 2022
Jena Ardell via Getty Images

CDC: Testing students who were exposed to COVID an option over home quarantine

The CDC says that schools opting to test exposed students rather than require a home quarantine aren't necessarily risking an outbreak.

  • Dec 17, 2021