Education
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Racial disparities in college major selection exacerbates earnings gap
Sep 20, 2015 1:00 am - African-American and Hispanic students disproportionately earn more bachelors degrees in low-paying majors, putting them at higher risk for financial instability after g...
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Kane County schools need substitute teachersSep 19, 2015 7:10 am - Regional office of education launching recruitment campaign for teachers
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What the issues are in the District 23 teacher strikeSep 19, 2015 7:00 am - As of Friday night, the Prospect Heights Education Association and the District 23 school board were no closer to a deal and were going into a weekend where they won't b...
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District 211 buys its new special education buildingSep 18, 2015 5:40 am - Palatine-Schaumburg High School District 211 board members voted unanimously Thursday to buy the district's newly opened Higgins Education Center next to Hoffman Estates...
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District 95 hosts presentation on state school legisalationSep 18, 2015 1:00 am - The Lake Zurich Unit District 95 community is invited to attend a presentation by Caryn Valdez, executive director of ED-RED, at the Thursday, Sept. 24, school board mee...
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College of DuPage board names building for Medal of Honor recipientSep 18, 2015 1:00 am - The Homeland Security Education Center at the College of DuPage will be named for a Medal of Honor recipient from Wheaton who was killed in 2008 during combat in Afghani...
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COD forms presidential search committeeSep 18, 2015 1:00 am - Fourteen area residents are joining College of DuPage board Chairwoman Kathy Hamilton and Trustee Frank Napolitano on the panel that will screen applicants seeking to be...
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Glen Ellyn teachers turn back clock for writing campSep 17, 2015 11:00 pm - Picture a one-room schoolhouse atop a little hill covered in wildflowers, the sounds of a creek. Feel that? The blood pressure dropping. There's probably a content grin ...
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U-46 to highlight high school academies at open house:Sep 17, 2015 11:00 am - Elgin Area School District U-46 will host an open house to highlight the district's five high school academy programs, their application and acceptance process. The ope...
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Classes called off again in Dist. 23 due to strikeSep 17, 2015 1:00 am - Prospect Heights Elementary District 23 teachers will return to the picket lines for a third day Friday after more than three hours of negotiations Thursday night betwee...