Education

Newt and Becky explain how the salt on our roads is different than the salt on our plates.

Our podcast Teachers’ Lounge is on the radio! We’ve got all of the interviews with Illinois teachers and education stories you love -- along with exclusive segments -- in a monthly, hour-long show on WNIJ on the last Friday of each month at 11 a.m. You can also listen right here, right now!

“A lot of the struggle, whether we're talking math or science or English or anything, really boils down to a lot of social emotional impacts that the students experienced.”

We learn why humans have developed an acute ability to recognize patterns in the world.

On a new Teachers’ Lounge podcast -- we’re live from an ACTUAL teachers’ lounge at North Grove Elementary School talking to teachers about how the pandemic has changed them.We recorded these conversations on video, as well, so you can go over to our WNIJ Facebook and Instagram RIGHT NOW and check those out. You can watch the full interviews on our WNIJ YouTube channel

“Last week, a student made threats to a teacher and said he is conducting a survey with other students to figure out which teacher he should kill. A co-worker reported this incident to the principal and other management at the district. Nothing has been done and the student is back in class," said one teacher.

We learn about some of the historical background of Fahrenheit and Celsius.

“The internet allows us to connect to a lot of really great important information, and kids are less likely to access it if they know that they're being surveilled," says Cody Venzke at the Center for Democracy & Technology. But school technology officials say the benefits outweigh the concerns.

On a new Teachers' Lounge podcast, a school librarian on media literacy, technology, censorship and more.

“You’re trying to intimidate,” former-board member Michael Connor said to Stange after he swung at him outside of the meeting. Now, the lawsuit alleges that the school board tried to intimidate Moore’s family to get them not to sue.