Articles filed under Education
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Three COD trustees skip meeting after agenda disputeJan 07, 2016 12:00 am - Three College of DuPage trustees skipped a special Thursday night meeting they scheduled after three other members of the bitterly divided board started their own meetin...
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First- and second-graders at Lincolnshire's Sprague School could get iPadsJan 07, 2016 12:00 am - All first- and second-graders at Sprague School would be assigned district-owned iPads for classroom use under proposed changes to Lincolnshire-Prairie View District 103...
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Emanuel appoints Guzman to Board of EdJan 06, 2016 10:00 pm - Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced on Wednesday the appointment of Jaime Guzman, who has served on the state's Charter School Commission and considered charter school proposal...
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Fremont students design new library cataloging systemJan 06, 2016 5:00 am - Fremont Middle School students were given a difficult task: replace the Dewey Decimal System used to organize and locate books in the school's media center with a new sy...
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Student first at Prairie Ridge to be admitted to YaleJan 06, 2016 12:00 am - Prairie Ridge High School senior Aidan O'Connor is the first student from the Crystal Lake school to be accepted to Yale University, officials said. "My family and I we...
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Massachusetts' Wheaton College hammered by Hawkins supportersJan 06, 2016 12:00 am - The dispute between Wheaton College and Professor Larycia Hawkins inadvertently has spilled over to a small liberal-arts college on the East Coast. Michael Graca, assist...
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St. Alphonsus School working on a plan to stay viableJan 06, 2016 12:00 am - Though approximately $332,000 was raised over Christmas break to keep St. Alphonsus Liguori Catholic School in Prospect Heights open for the 2016-17 school year, school ...
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U of I, McHenry County College partner on engineering degreeJan 06, 2016 12:00 am - McHenry County College is partnering with the University of Illinois to help students save money and get jobs in physics, engineering and technology fields. Starting thi...
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From compost to classroom: Sustainability as a way of lifeJan 05, 2016 12:00 pm - Sustainability has evolved from a buzzword to a part of everyday life, and as educational leaders deeply ingrained in our local culture, community colleges have the reso...
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Catholic school in Antioch to closeJan 05, 2016 12:00 am - A Catholic grade school in Antioch will shut down because of declining enrollment, the Archdiocese of Chicago announced Tuesday. St. Peter School is among three Chic...