Education
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Bartlett High School dean remembered for her kind spiritAug 06, 2013 5:30 am - When classes start at Bartlett High School in two weeks, staff members and students will return to a community changed by the loss of a beloved dean. Ann Kallenbach, who...
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Union: Special ed, arts hit hard by CPS cutsAug 05, 2013 3:58 pm - A union representing Chicago’s public school teachers says nearly 15 percent of educators who are being laid off teach special education, while another 9 percent teach a...
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Illinois, Wheaton at opposite ends of 'party school' rankingsAug 05, 2013 2:00 pm - IOWA CITY, Iowa — College students consider the University of Iowa the nation's best party school, even though Iowa City has tried to make its famous bar scene less hosp...
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St. Viator using iPads to replace text booksAug 05, 2013 12:17 pm - St. Viator High School will open this year without one long-standing tradition: Book Day. That’s because nearly 98 percent of books for freshmen, sophomores and juniors...
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District 116, community plan to welcome students back to classAug 05, 2013 10:05 am - When the new school year begins Tueday Aug. 20 in Round Lake Unit District 116, students are going to know they have the support of their communities. That’s because man...
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St. Viator to randomly test all students for alcohol consumptionAug 05, 2013 5:15 am - St. Viator High School in Arlington Heights will begin randomly testing all students for alcohol consumption starting this fall, adding to the school's drug testing poli...
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U-46 wraps up summer projects ahead of student returnAug 05, 2013 2:22 am - Classroom upgrades, hiring wrapping up
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Education innovation blooms in recession’s wakeAug 04, 2013 6:47 am - SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — On a warm spring evening, hundreds of investment bankers, venture capitalists and geeky tech entrepreneurs gathered near the pool of the Phoenician, ...
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Back-to-school shopping likely to be less this yearAug 04, 2013 6:00 am - Tiffany Slaney-Leigh, 14, of El Cerrito, Calif., says she'd love to get a laptop, an iPhone, three-inch wedge sneakers, mini dresses and a butterfly tattoo on her hip be...
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Retired teachers luncheon:Aug 02, 2013 6:06 pm - The Lake County Retired Teachers Association will meet at noon on Tuesday, Aug. 13, at Lambs Farm restaurant, Route 176 and the Tri-State Tollway, near Libertyville. The...