H-F joins elite curriculum program

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The IB organization recently granted IB World School status to the high school in Flossmoor. H-F joins 3,000 IB schools worldwide. School officials started looking at joining the program in 2010.

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Pupils learn it’s really great to be outdoors

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“This will make best use of our fantastic rural space for children to learn new skills, which may include building outdoor shelters, lighting camp fires and outdoor cooking and how to safely use outdoor tools.”

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Malton couple make desperate plea after daughter excluded from three schools

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“In addition to this, the county has a number of special schools and commissions five primary schools as enhanced mainstream schools for children with communication and interaction needs,” said a spokeswoman.

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Woman who never intended to teach now praised as California Teacher of the Year - by Kathryn Baron

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“To be perfectly candid, I was similar to other TFA teachers. I thought I would teach for two years and then leave teaching and go to grad school in who knows what,” laughed I’Asha Warfield in her office off the library at Frick Middle School in Oakland Unified School District, where she’s been an English teacher since TFA sent her there 13 years ago.

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Four Chicago Public Schools saved from closing list; fate of remaining schools up for vote today

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She will postpone the closing of Miriam G. Canter Middle School until June 2014 and let Clara Barton Elementary School improve itself instead of firing its staff and turning it over to the Academy for Urban School Leadership, the source said.

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