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East St. Louis instructional coach Tracee Wells taught AVID to Chaya Cary, 16. Cary is studying at Southwestern Illinois College in the fall of 2017. "We don't hear enough about these kinds of stories coming out of East St. Louis," Wells said.

Education

Belleville, East St. Louis add more black and low-income students to advanced classes

Belleville’s two public high schools have doubled the number of low-income students and students of color in advanced placement courses in the coming…

Washington University announced a medical apprenticeship program, which will teach medical assistants to draw blood and do other clinical tasks.

Education

The doctor is in: Normandy High one of three districts with health clinics on site

Chantel Courtney and her two sons took a wrong turn at Normandy’s back-to-school fair last weekend in search of getting her eighth-grader a vaccination.…

Construction workers finish up work on the new Stone Creek Elementary School in the Wentzville School District on July 25, 2017. It's one of two new schools that will open next week.

Education

Wentzville's the latest school district to undergo St. Charles County growth spurt

Ryan Delaney

Signs along the road leading to one of the new elementary schools in the Wentzville School District advertise newly constructed homes for sale. It’s…

Ashley Lock peers out of the window during a district bus tour for new teachers at Ladue Horton Watkins High School, where she'll teach history.

Education

New to Ladue, teachers get a feel of district’s boundaries, classrooms

Ryan Delaney

As children and teens across the St. Louis area enjoy their last few days of freedom before school resumes, districts are putting teachers — old and new —…

William Thomas, 18, of Chicago Heights, Illinois, fills out residential housing paperwork at a Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville freshman orientation on Friday, July 28, 2017.

Education

SIUE’s success a story of construction, out-of-state students

Ryan Delaney

Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville has morphed over the last decade from a commuter college into a regional university that attracts out-of-state…

Katey Finnegan demonstrates how to use the chill zone, a space where students can take time to regroup while at the Maplewood Richmond Heights district's Student Success Center.

Education

Missouri school districts eschew suspensions, turn to calming disciplinary techniques

St. Louis-area school districts are in the midst of a discipline revolution. After the Ferguson Commission in 2015 recommended banning suspensions for…

Economy & Business

School-supply drives help students start on an equal footing

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon: July 17, 2008 - To many elementary school students, the crackle of pushing a shiny fresh pencil on…