Education
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Poll Vault: Worst grade you received on a report card?Jun 07, 2013 12:01 am - Elgin Area School District U-46 has created a bit of stir with plans to change its grading policy for the next school year. As Daily Herald staff writer Tara Garcia Math...
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Images: Vernon Hills High School GraduationJun 06, 2013 10:00 pm - ...
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Images: Stevenson High School GraduationJun 06, 2013 9:18 pm - ...
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Digging deeper: Science teacher’s wormy lesson yields resultsJun 06, 2013 7:02 pm - A few thousand worms wiggle through decomposed banana peels, vegetables, and scraps of bread, adding their own waste to a thick, black muck contained by layered plastic ...
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Indiana University board approves tuition increaseJun 06, 2013 6:24 pm - INDIANAPOLIS — Most Indiana University students are facing an average 1.75 percent tuition increase each of the next two years under a plan approved by the school’s boar...
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Ball State trustees OK 2 percent tuition increaseJun 06, 2013 6:24 pm - MUNCIE, Ind. — The Ball State University board of trustees has approved a 2 percent tuition increase for each of the next two years. The 20,000-student school says the i...
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University of Phoenix commencement in Hoffman EstatesJun 06, 2013 6:01 pm - The University of Phoenix Chicago Campus will host its graduation ceremony at 10 a.m. on Saturday, June 8, at the Sears Centre Arena in Hoffman Estates. More than 800 lo...
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Ex-board member hired to lead Prairie Crossing Charter School in GrayslakeJun 06, 2013 5:27 pm - An environmental company founder who’s a former board member at Prairie Crossing Charter School in Grayslake has been tabbed as its new executive director. Geoff Deigan...
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Good citizen Woodland students:Jun 06, 2013 4:34 pm - Exchange Club of Gurnee has presented Young Citizenship Awards to some Woodland Elementary District 50 pupils. Receiving the kudos were eighth-grader Parker Reinhard, se...
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Chamber thanks Young Entrepreneurs:Jun 06, 2013 4:33 pm - Lake Zurich Area Chamber of Commerce has issued a public thank-you to students in this year’s Young Entrepreneurs Academy on their successful completion of the 30-week p...