Plaisance earns Gatorade state honorCHICAGO — Theresa Plaisance of Vandebilt Catholic High School has been selected the Gatorade Louisiana Girls Basketball Player of the Year for the second straight season.

MC professor Simon Cordery authors biography of Mother JonesMONMOUTH — A century before fictional character Forrest Gump turned up in the most famous places of his generation, such as the Vietnam War and the Watergate Hotel, there was Mother Jones. Before becoming famous as a leader in the labor movement of the early 20th century, she experienced the Irish potato famine, the Civil War, a yellow fever epidemic and the Great Chicago Fire.

2,000 grades raised at Chicago Public Schools' Hyde Park AcademySun-Times Special Report: Last school year at struggling Hyde Park Academy High, more than 2,000 grades were boosted at least one notch, a Chicago Sun-Times analysis shows. And this school year, blanket A's were ordered issued to all students of five new Hyde Park teachers.