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Editorial: Teachers, perpetual war doesn't help students
When a vast tornado ripped into an Oklahoma elementary school, some teachers threw themselves on top of their students to shield them. They put their students' lives before their own. Some quick-thinking teachers huddled children into a bathroom. Though...
Tags: Elementary Schools, Education, Public Schools, Schools, Teaching and Learning
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Music Institute closing Highland Park campus
Creating more collaboration among students and teachers and delivering a higher quality and depth of music instruction are the primary reasons the Music Institute of Chicago is closing its Highland Park campus to expand its facilities at the Grove...
Tags: Music, Education, Entertainment, Teaching and Learning, Students
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Dr. Daniel Offer, 1929-2013
Psychiatrist Daniel Offer ignored conventional wisdom and prevailing theories in conducting research that provided new insights into adolescent development and how adults remember the past. "He always said, 'You've got to get the data,'" said his wife,...
Tags: Northwestern University, University of Virginia, Dialysis, Teaching and Learning, University of Chicago
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Cal State moving to offer online science labs
California State University is moving aggressively to offer web-based science labs, a systemwide virtual campus and online advising as remedies for "bottlenecks" that impede student progress and graduation rates, officials said Tuesday. Some of these...Tags: Science and Technology, Education, Executive Branch, Government, Jerry Brown
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Martinsburg High grads 'must never forget where our path started'
richardb@herald-mail.comMartinsburg High School graduates, their families and faculty were forced to evacuate the Butcher Center at Shepherd University Tuesday night when the second of two fire alarms went off moments before the commencement ceremony was to begin. Campus police...Tags: Science and Technology, Graduation, Awards and Prizes, Teaching and Learning, Financial Aid
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Arlington Heights District 25 proposes changes to gifted program
Some big curriculum changes could be coming for Arlington Heights' most advanced students. The phase-out of the existing Odyssey Program and a push for a controversial teaching model known as "differentiation" were among the eight recommendations...
Tags: Science and Technology, Teaching and Learning, Students
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Seminole teachers to vote on pay raise, change to salary schedule
Seminole County's public school teachers are to vote next week on a contract that will give them a retroactive, average raise of 2.7 percent for the current school year -- but also put them on a new "salary schedule" their union opposes. The Seminole...Tags: Seminole County, The Seminole Tribe, Teaching and Learning
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Rabbi receives JEA award
Rabbi Dr. Michael Korman, spiritual leader of Congregation Anshei Shalom in West Palm Beach, has recently been awarded the title, Conservative Jewish Educator (CJE) by the Jewish Educators Assembly. The Jewish Educators Assembly, the professional...Tags: Adult Education, Education, Palm Beach (Palm Beach, Florida), Judaism, Human Interest
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District 25 dismisses employees, but OKs money for new hires
Despite more than two dozen teachers and teaching assistants being dismissed from Arlington Heights School District 25, officials expect there will be a net gain of staffers for next year. The elementary school district did not renew contracts with a...
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Students
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Naperville North honors alumni
Naperville North High School's latest Learners to Leaders Award winners took different paths to achieve their goals. Dr. Bridget Terry Long cultivated her intellect and pursued her passions while Mark Slaby made it his mission to be the hardest...
Tags: Science and Technology, Education, Science, Indiana University, Graduation
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Voice of the People, May. 22
Labeling schools In the controversy over school closings, we often hear the term "failing" as a reason for closing a school. The use of this term is both degrading and insulting to the students, teachers and parents of those schools. A school is a...Tags: Chicago Tribune, Chicago Teachers Union, Chicago Mayor, Chicago Public Schools, Chicago Weather
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Teacher arrested for bringing gun to school identified
KWCH 12 Eyewitness NewsA Wichita elementary school teacher is on paid suspension after being arrested for bringing a gun to school. Daniel Nagel, 31, was arrested Monday after another employee at White Elementary called 911 and reported seeing a teacher had a gun. A...Tags: Police Arrests, Firearms, Teaching and Learning
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