Articles filed under Education
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Suburban school closings due to heat todaySep 10, 2013 12:00 am - A few school districts in the suburbs have announced early dismissals or outright closings because of the forecast heat today. St. Charles Unit District 303 reported...
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Two Lake Co. teachers listed among state’s bestSep 09, 2013 2:35 pm - A pair of Lake County teachers are among the 11 selected as finalists in the Illinois State Board of Education’s annual “Those Who Excel” competition. Libertyville High ...
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Learning the twists and turns of time zonesSep 09, 2013 11:06 am - Nancy Sullivan’s sixth-graders at Frederick Nerge Elementary in Roselle wanted to know, “How are the time zones determined?” Travel back in time about 100 years and you’...
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For Lyn Scolaro's students, the classroom is only the beginningSep 09, 2013 6:00 am - In Lyn Scolaro's classroom, learning a new language is about more than vocabulary words and conjugating verbs. It's a doorway to a new culture, a way to open minds and h...
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More parents opting kids out of standardized testsSep 08, 2013 7:36 pm - DELAWARE TOWNSHIP, N.J. — While his eighth-grade classmates took state standardized tests this spring, Tucker Richardson woke up late and played basketball in his Delawa...
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10 'failing' schools will be restructured in U-46Sep 08, 2013 8:00 am - 10 'failing' schools will be restructured
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Bartlett teacher's charity links his students with AfricaSep 07, 2013 11:00 pm - From the narrow vantage point of his boyhood home in a Southeast Side neighborhood in Chicago, young Brett Weiss figured the big, wide world outside his door was pretty ...
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Dist. 302 enrollment down for 2nd year in a rowSep 06, 2013 4:08 pm - Enrollment in the Kaneland school district, once the poster child of the go-go suburban housing boom of the early 2000s, has declined for the second year in a row. Total...
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Civil rights icon meets with marshal who escorted her to schoolSep 05, 2013 6:10 pm - INDIANAPOLIS — Civil rights icon Ruby Bridges, who as a 6-year-old helped end public school segregation in South, was reunited Thursday with one of the federal marshals ...
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Enrollment down but more diverse at ISUSep 05, 2013 4:01 pm - NORMAL, Ill. — Enrollment is slightly down at Illinois State University at the beginning of this school year, but incoming freshmen have higher GPAs and ACT scores. The ...