Articles filed under Education
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Prairie Crossing funding meeting TuesdayApr 01, 2013 4:23 pm - Prairie Crossing Charter School board members will meet at 7 p.m. Tuesday, with the lone agenda item focusing on proposed state legislation pertaining to funding. It’ll ...
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Deadline looms for first-time statewide school surveyApr 01, 2013 5:00 am - Parents, teachers and students statewide have just a couple of weeks left to provide feedback to their schools through a survey required for the first time by state law....
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Suburban teachers try new assessment of kindergartners that emphasizes playMar 31, 2013 8:00 am - Two kindergartners are sitting at a table in their school, building a castle with colored blocks. One suggests they take turns picking which block to add next. Their tea...
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A look at what’s in the new kindergarten assessmentMar 31, 2013 8:00 am - A new assessment for kindergartners will not require them to fill in the bubbles on an answer sheet. It also won’t require one-on-one work with a teacher where the child...
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Schaumburg offers 20th annual community scholarshipMar 29, 2013 5:26 pm - Schaumburg Mayor Al Larson has announced the availability of the village’s 20th Annual Community Scholarship in cooperation with Business and Career Services Inc. A Pres...
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Roosevelt U. Schaumburg provost named executive directorMar 29, 2013 11:00 am - Douglas Knerr, provost of Roosevelt University’s Schaumburg Campus since January 2011, has been appointed executive director and university provost of Roosevelt Universi...
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Congressional inaction could cost college studentsMar 29, 2013 7:22 am - WASHINGTON — Congressional inaction could end up costing college students an extra $5,000 on their new loans. The rate for subsidized Stafford loans is set to increase f...
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Editorial: School tech decisions vital to futureMar 29, 2013 5:00 am - The way we use technology changes in the blink of an eye, and in few places is this more evident than our schools. Finding the best ways to promote learning through digi...
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Oakton College hopefuls talk health care, retrainingMar 28, 2013 5:30 am - Cutting teaching hours for part-time faculty, absorbing the cost of employee pensions, retraining today’s workforce for an evolving job market, and improving graduation ...
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District 26 race candidates passionate on a range of topicsMar 26, 2013 5:40 pm - Editors note: this story was changed to reflect the fact that Floyd Myers was elected to the school board in 2011, not appointed. Finances, accountability, communicatio...