Illinois Homeschool Act

As the Trump administration last week moved to loosen the government’s grip on K-12 education, Illinois inched closer to tightening state reins on homeschooling families and private schools. On Thursday, President Trump signed an executive order dismantling the Education Department, pointing to historic lows in math and

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Book Review: Brothers

If you lived through the 1980s and 1990s, you knew Eddie Van Halen’s music. If you liked classic rock, you knew his work even better. Eddie was, as some have said, the Mozart of the guitar world. He never learned to read music. It didn’t matter. His

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