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Chiedu Okonmah (center) and other eighth-graders prepare for Catholic high school entrance exams and public school placement tests during a mathematics review with teacher Jay Hoppie at St. Joseph School in Homewood. | Brett Roseman~Sun-Times Media
Summer Reyes (right) raises her hand to answer a question as she and other eighth-graders prepare for upcoming Catholic high school entrance exams and public school placement tests at St. Joseph School in Homewood. | Brett Roseman~Sun-Times Media
Eighth-graders prepare for upcoming Catholic high school entrance exams and public school placement tests during a mathematics review session with teacher Jay Hoppie at St. Joseph School in Homewood on January 9, 2013. | Brett Roseman~Sun-Times Media
Eighth-graders prepare for upcoming Catholic high school entrance exams and public school placement tests during a mathematics review session with teacher Jay Hoppie at St. Joseph School in Homewood on January 9, 2013. | Brett Roseman~Sun-Times Media
Eighth-graders prepare for upcoming Catholic high school entrance exams and public school placement tests during a mathematics review session with teacher Jay Hoppie at St. Joseph School in Homewood on January 9, 2013. | Brett Roseman~Sun-Times Media
Eighth-graders prepare for upcoming Catholic high school entrance exams and public school placement tests during a mathematics review session with teacher Jay Hoppie at St. Joseph School in Homewood on January 9, 2013. | Brett Roseman~Sun-Times Media
The dry-erase board in Jay Hoppie’s classroom was filled with mathematical formulas — the area of a rectangle (length times width), a triangle (base times height times one-half) and the circumference of a circle (diameter times pi). “Review these formulas. They will probably be on …
