Articles filed under Education
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'Pandemic pods' give kids space to learn, playAug 25, 2020 5:30 am - Monday marked the first day of school for thousands of students across the suburbs who are starting the new year the way they ended the last one: virtually. But rather t...
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12 positive COVID-19 cases among Maine South students linked to partiesAug 25, 2020 1:00 am - Even with a plan of remote learning to start the school year, Maine South High School is dealing with a COVID-19 outbreak. In an email sent to parents on Sunday, Maine S...
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$13.5 million kindergarten center concludes years of planningAug 25, 2020 1:00 am - After the introduction Monday of "Soaring Eagles" as the school song for a new kindergarten center in Vernon Hills, Principal Jill Martin had a hopeful message for those...
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District 15 "tech tents" help bilingual families with e-learningAug 25, 2020 1:00 am - Figuring out how to make virtual learning work smoothly can pose challenges for students and families, particularly those who are not comfortable speaking English. To he...
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Suburban teachers' project emphasizes that Black art mattersAug 24, 2020 5:30 am - Suburban teachers promote diversity in course material
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Will special-needs students fall through the cracks as school resumes?Aug 24, 2020 5:00 am - As schools begin to navigate a return to remote — and in some cases hybrid or in-person — learning, some parents of special-needs students fear their children might fall...
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Student in District 10 tests positiveAug 24, 2020 1:00 am - In a letter to families, Itasca Elementary District 10 Superintendent Craig Benes said the student did not attend classes Monday. Benes attached guidance from the DuPage...
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Brief Zoom glitches didn't mar start of classes, school leaders sayAug 24, 2020 1:00 am - Global partial outages of Zoom videoconferencing services caused some consternation Monday for educators and students in a few suburban districts that began the school y...
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Temperature scans, symptom checks welcome St. Viator students back to schoolAug 24, 2020 1:00 am - Symptom checks and temperature scans joined new classes and meetups with old friends as essential elements of the first day of school Monday at St. Viator High School in...
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What no student loan payments until 2021 means for youAug 23, 2020 6:20 am - You don't have to make another federal student loan payment in 2020. Now is the time, though, to decide what to do before your bill arrives in January 2021. Federal stud...