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Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern

Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern


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Superintendent Paul Goren speaks at a District 65 board meeting. The board discussed suspensions and a new equity assessment tool.

District 65 board members evaluate drop in suspensions through equity lens

February 27, 2018

Evanston/Skokie School District 65 board members evaluated new suspension practices with the racial equity impact assessment guide— a 10-step tool for addressing racial disparities. On Monday night,...

Evanston Township High School junior Sarah Bloom and her team after winning a competition. Bloom said her team’s experiment will be launched into space sometime this summer.

ETHS junior part of team to send project into space

February 21, 2018

Evanston Township High School student Sarah Bloom found out this summer over Facebook Live her all-women team won a competition that will allow them to send an experiment to space. At first, she didn’t...

Ald. Cicely Fleming (9th) listens at city council. The achievement gap in District 65 widened in 2017 according to the Achievement and Accountability Report.

District 65, community members take closer look at racial achievement gap

February 15, 2018

Henry Wilkins, a parent at Dr. Bessie Rhodes School of Global Studies, witnessed the impacts of the achievement gap as a black student growing up in Ohio. Thirty years later in Evanston, he’s not sure...

Becky Brodsky discusses environmental initiatives. Green Team members proposed lunchroom waste reduction projects and developed a film festival to celebrate Earth Day.

D65 Green Teams evaluate pilot programs on sustainability, proposes plans for Earth Day

February 14, 2018

At their second meeting Tuesday, Evanston/Skokie School District 65 Green Teams members proposed initiatives to reduce waste in lunchrooms and planned a film festival to celebrate Earth Day. District...

District 65 teacher becomes finalist for Illinois teaching award

February 13, 2018

Kristin Mitchell — a kindergarten teacher at the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Literary and Fine Arts School in Evanston — is a finalist in the annual Golden Apple Awards for Excellence in Teaching &...

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