Jardine Elementary School first-grade teacher Daija Coleman points toward the word "thumb" she wrote on the board as her students raise their hands Wednesday. There's a direct frankness to the way ...

Austin Bird, an eighth grader at Merrick Avenue Middle School, recently educated his classmates on sporting opportunities ...

Veteran actress and directorPatti Flaherty of Moline picked up a copy of the play "And They Dance Real Slow in Jackson" during a 1989 visit to New York City. But she didn't think about bringing it to ...

There's a direct frankness to the way 6-year-olds see the world that would be easy to mistake for rudeness. But Daija Coleman knows better. On the first day of her first year as a first-grade teacher, ...