Education

A non-profit supporting international students at NIU, Network of Nations, is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year. It comes during a stressful time for international students with the Trump administration revoking then reinstating student visas. WNIJ’s Peter Medlin reports…

We cruise the WNIJ van into the NIU STEAM garage to get the clean facts, to answer a listener's question, on electric vehicle maintenance.

WNIJ & the NIU STEAM duo team-up once again to reveal if it is possible to forecast the weather based on a few simple & seemingly unrelated observations.

Elgin High School students have been running experiments and conservation efforts on a creek behind their school for decades. Now, they need some extra help. WNIJ’s Peter Medlin has the story…

La Junta de Educación del Estado de Illinois anunció el desarrollo de una iniciativa estatal de aritmética para mejorar el rendimiento en matemáticas. Peter Medlin tiene más información...

La administración Trump cerró recientemente la Oficina Regional de Derechos Civiles del Departamento de Educación de EE. UU. en Chicago. Peter Medlin ofrece más información sobre las implicaciones para los estudiantes y las quejas relacionadas con los derechos civiles.

On a new Teachers’ Lounge podcast, a music teacher with the Rockford Symphony Youth Orchestra tells us how students have fun while playing really high-level music.

The Trump administration recently closed the U.S. Department of Education’s regional Office for Civil Rights in Chicago. Peter Medlin has more on what it means for students and civil rights complaints.

La administración Trump restableció las visas de miles de estudiantes internacionales, cuyo estatus legal les habían revocado previamente

The Trump administration has reinstated the visas of thousands of international students, whose legal status they’d previously revoked.