Education
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Why are suburban schools starting so early?Aug 13, 2012 2:00 pm - If it feels like school is starting even earlier than usual this year, it's not your imagination. For at least 20 years, most suburban schools have opened in August. Thi...
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Barrington teen is Illinois winner in national essay contestAug 13, 2012 6:00 am - In 1958, a fire killed 92 children and three nuns at Our Lady of the Angels school in Chicago. A documentary about this disaster by Megan Siebert was the first step in t...
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Pet CPR class in Streamwood Aug. 18Aug 12, 2012 9:51 am - Animal Hospital of Streamwood will hold its next Pet CPR and First Aid class from 3:30 to 7 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 18 at the hospital, 904 E. Irving Park Road in Streamwood...
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SHS discount cards availableAug 12, 2012 9:18 am - The new Stevenson High School Band and Color Guard Patriot savings cards, which offer discounts at dozens of area merchants, are on sale. The cards cost $10 and are sold...
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Can an addictive video game be an educational tool?Aug 12, 2012 8:00 am - Have you heard about Minecraft, the computer game that uses virtual building blocks and teems with opportunities for creative problem-solving? Have you yet been swept in...
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Government opens competition for new school grantsAug 11, 2012 11:52 pm - WASHINGTON — Hoping to build on state-level reforms aimed at closing the education achievement gap, the Education Department opened its Race to the Top competition to sc...
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S. Elgin football player airlifted from practice, doing OKAug 11, 2012 6:31 pm - After a scary afternoon when a 16-year-old junior at South Elgin High School was airlifted from football practice to a trauma center, things were looking better Saturday...
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Grayslake District 46 officials testy about Open Meetings ActAug 11, 2012 7:59 am - What started as a discussion on whether an attorney should be hired to attend meetings turned into friction between some Grayslake Elementary District 46 board members o...
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Congress has food fight over fresh vs. frozen fruitAug 11, 2012 7:54 am - WASHINGTON — Are canned pears the nutritional equivalent of a juicy fruit off the tree? House Republicans seem to think so. And their proposal to tinker with a program t...
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Why robots might make great teachersAug 11, 2012 7:54 am - We’ve been promised for years that robots will soon move from factories into our everyday lives (maybe even white-collar offices), and yet so far, the closest thing we h...