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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


The Joseph E. Hill Education Center, 1500 McDaniel Ave. Evanston/Skokie School District 65 kindergarten teacher Kristin Mitchell received the Golden Apple Award for Excellence in Teaching & Leadership.

District 65 teacher wins Illinois teaching award

May 6, 2018

Evanston/Skokie District 65 superintendent Paul Goren said every time he visits Kristin Mitchell’s classroom, he can tell how much her students enjoy learning from her. When Mitchell received the Golden...

Evanston/Skokie School District 65 superintendent Paul Goren at a meeting. District 65 plans to provide its middle schoolers with iPads beginning the 2018-19 school year.

District 65 to provide middle schoolers with iPads in technology program

April 30, 2018

Evanston/Skokie School District 65 will increase access to technology for its students with the rollout of a 1:1 program in which each student at the middle schools and magnet schools will receive a device. Stacy...

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 &...

Evanston students gather onstage for the finale of Diverse Communities United in 2017. This year’s event focused around the theme “I am deliberate and afraid of nothing” — a line from one of Audre Lorde’s poems.

Diverse Communities United 2018 focuses on black women, black LGBTQ voices

January 15, 2018

Prompted by the current political atmosphere, this year’s Diverse Communities United 2018 performance focused on amplifying the voices of black women and black members of the LGBTQ community. Students...

Park School, 828 Main St. Park School, along with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Literary and Fine Arts School, have labeled single-stall bathrooms as gender neutral.

District 65 schools begin implementing gender neutral bathrooms

October 10, 2017

Some schools in Evanston/Skokie School District 65 have begun to establish transgender-friendly bathrooms in the wake of Evanston Township High School’s decision to enact a transgender locker room policy. This...

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