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High school students turn to internships to help plot future
This summer, teenagers will canvass in support of politicians, help nurses in hospitals or tweet as part of a company's social media effort. They're still in high school but they are working unpaid internships — sometimes even paying thousands of...
Tags: Students, Hospitals and Clinics, Media Industry, Nursing, New York University
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Reading help on the way for Columbus kindergartners
The Columbus DispatchMost children who came to kindergarten in Columbus schools without knowing the ABCs, which way to hold a book or other important early-reading skills remained behind when they reached third grade. Two out of 3 of those children did not pass the third-...Tags: Students, Teaching and Learning, Teachers, Early Learning, The Ohio State University
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Are college presidents worth their eye-popping salaries?
Change of SubjectEvidently not. The Chronicle of HIgher Education has posted a list of the top 100 salaries of public-university presidents (by total compensation package: Graham B. Spanier Pennsylvania State University at University Park $2,906,721 (1st) Jay Gogue Auburn... -
Common Science Standards Face Capacity Issues
Education Week, Bethesda, Md.With the completion of new standards intended to reshape science education, the real heavy lifting now begins. First, states must decide whether to adopt the Next Generation Science Standards developed by a coalition of 26 states and several national...Tags: Students, Bethesda (Montgomery, Maryland), Technology, Colleges and Universities, Teaching and Learning
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Mary Novotny Jeffries advocates for amputees
Mary Novotny Jeffries was 11 when she lost her right leg, from the hip down, to bone cancer. When she returned to the home she shared with her parents and eight siblings on Chicago's South Side, everything — and nothing — had changed. "I...
Tags: Haiti Earthquake (2010), Haiti, Conservation, Nursing, Orthopedic Surgery
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Chicago haters
RedEyeWest suburban Downers Grove resident Amy Hebert has heard it all. Is she always eating at Chili's? Doesn't she get sick of driving everywhere? Aren't the suburbs just a bunch of chain stores? Hebert's answer to all of the above is "no." After three...Tags: Woodfield Mall, Wrigley Field
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After scandal, U. of I.'s former chancellor isn't teaching but still makes $212,000
Richard Herman doesn't have to do much teaching as part of his $212,000 faculty job at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. When he resigned as chancellor after a high-profile admissions scandal, he made a deal to teach just two classes a...
Tags: Students, Champaign (Champaign, Illinois), Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Colleges and Universities
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Saber-rattling fits the family Stone
The four Stone kids always were a competitive bunch, especially the three youngest siblings who were separated by three school grades while being home-schooled together. "They worked very hard to keep up with each other — and beat each other," said...
Tags: College Sports, Fencing, Philosophy, UIC Flames, Mariel Zagunis
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div.article div.byline p.date {display:none;} Anthony Madrid Anthony Madrid lives in Chicago. His poems have appeared in Boston Review, Gulf Coast, The Iowa Review, Poetry and Web Conjunctions. His first book is “I Am Your Slave Now Do What I...Tags: China, Tribune Company, Fiction, Celiac Disease, Authors
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Taking the less-known route
If you can't get in — or can't afford — a top business school, is an MBA from a lesser-known school worth it? The answer depends largely on the student. Those gunning for the top of the organizational chart, and without the networking...
Tags: Services and Shopping, Teaching and Learning, Michigan Avenue, Graduation, Heavy Engineering
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Dominican graduation to be at UIC
For the first time, Dominican University students will enjoy the pomp and circumstance of their graduation day away from the River Forest campus, and all the families in the audience will be able to cheer from the same room. "For years we've just been...Tags: Awards and Prizes, Students, Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago, Teaching and Learning, Colleges and Universities
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Reports blister Chicago psychiatric hospital for youths
When Garfield Park Hospital opened in February, the child psychiatric center promised to treat Chicago's toughest kids, including young gang members and sexually aggressive adolescents. But Illinois officials stopped sending juvenile state wards to...
Tags: Medical Specialization, Hospitals and Clinics, Nursing, U.S. Department of Justice, Universal Health Services Incorporated
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