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Northwest suburban Hispanic high school students are doing better on standardized tests than their downstate counterparts, but the “achievement gap” between Hispanic teens and other students in the suburbs is still too wide, educators say.
Statistic...
Updated: Nov 01, 2012 at 04:18 PM
Harper women’s volleyball standouts Erinn Hellweg and Kelly Sommers have been named to named to the all-North Cential Community College Conference team and the all Region-IV team.
Veronica Dabrowski (Rolling Meadows) and Clara Moravec (Jacobs) were ...
Updated: Oct 31, 2012 at 01:10 AM
Northwest suburban residents are encouraged to put on their director’s hat for a communitywide Harper College film competition, inspired by The New York Times best-seller and 2011 hit movie “The Help.”
The contest, urging budding producers to develo...
Updated: Oct 30, 2012 at 03:34 PM
In celebration of International Education Week, Harper College will host a series of free public events — including a Human Rights Expo, film screenings, a food festival and guest lectures — designed to raise awareness of different cultures and stre...
Published: Oct 29, 2012 at 01:00 PM
Peter Jackson made it his mission to learn more about prescription pain medication after his 18-year-old daughter, Emily, died of respiratory depression in 2006 caused by a single OxyContin pain pill.
Over the years, the Arlington Heights dad says h...
Updated: Oct 31, 2012 at 07:00 AM
Lombard fire victim trying to “get back to my old self”
Jason Cassidy remembers little about the fire that took 40 percent of his skin and killed one of his friends. But the Villa Park man tells the Daily Herald he is determined to recover. “I ...
Updated: Oct 30, 2012 at 11:50 AM
Michael Stokes’ record as Prospect’s boys cross country coach speaks for itself.
And soon enough, Stokes will speak as a hall of famer.
Stokes will be inducted into the Illinois Track and Cross Country Coaches Association Hall of Fame at the ITCCCA ...
Updated: Oct 29, 2012 at 08:12 PM
When he became a police officer in 1972, Michael B. Alsup didn't receive much formal training about domestic violence.
“Back then it was called wife-beating,” says Alsup, 61, who has been chief of police at Harper College in Palatine since 2000 and ...
Updated: Oct 30, 2012 at 11:50 AM
The top-seeded Rock Valley’s women’s volleyball team defeated Harper for the fourth time this season 16-25, 18-25, 19-25 to win the NJCAA Region IV District B championship on Saturday in Rockford.
The Golden Eagles (37-8), who hosted the tourney, wi...
Updated: Oct 27, 2012 at 09:25 PM
They range from a television producer and event planner to a Barrington financial executive, an Arlington Heights entrepreneur and a Hoffman Estates building official.
All call themselves alumni of Harper College.
On Monday, Oct. 29, at a campus re...
Updated: Oct 28, 2012 at 07:48 AM