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On a new Teachers' Lounge Radio Show, we’re bringing you even more student voices, this time from Somonauk’s FFA program. We're also learning about how schools fueled America's first culture war, and ask 'What's the real point of social studies?'

On a brand-new Teachers' Lounge Podcast, we’re talking about America’s first school culture war: JAZZ!"Jazz was seen as more of a lifestyle, and so if you are interested in jazz, you were, as critics believed, also interested in drinking, in smoking, some degree of sexual activity. The belief was that if you could dissuade young people from not being interested in jazz, that all these other vices would would also go away."How the Jazz Problem set the stage for modern moral panics.

On a new episode of Teachers' Lounge: Mike McHale. He’s a professor at Rockford University and a math and physics teacher at Byron High School. Mike is…

North American theater tickets sales have fallen 84% compared to the same period in 2019. That’s according to a September report by the international…

Welcome to WNIJ's Poetically Yours. Poetically Yours showcases poems by northern Illinois poets. Today's poem is by Jennifer Rea.She is an assistant…

Move-in day is normally a frenzy. At large schools like Northern Illinois University, thousands of students descend onto campus; student organizations…

Rockford University announced a new scholarship this week aimed at Black students interested in pursuing business. Between Rockford University and the…

On this week’s podcast: Maggie Kasicki talks to host Peter Medlin. She teaches English as a Second Language at Rockford University. She also volunteers at…

Printmaker and painter Manny Tang comes to Illinois by way of Taipei, Taiwan and New York, New York. Her art is displayed throughout the state in…

Nearly 3 billion birds have been lost in North America since 1970. That’s according to a report published last month in Science Magazine. The finding has…