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NAACP Chairman Julian Bond to deliver keynote at three-day U. of I. conference
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – Julian Bond, the chairman of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, will speak on “The Broken Promise of Brown” beginning at 7:30 p.m. Friday (April 2) in the auditorium of Smith Memorial Hall, 805 S. Mathews Ave., Urbana. Bond’s address is the keynote for a three-day conference, “Promises to […]
Conference to explore legacy of 1954 Brown v. Board decision
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – The landmark Brown v. Board of Education U.S. Supreme Court decision will soon mark its 50th anniversary, on May 17. But what has been its true legacy? How has it fulfilled, or failed to fulfill, the promises that many once envisioned for greater equality? Those and other questions will be the focus […]
‘Lawrence of Arabia’ and Buster Keaton masterpiece headline ‘Ebertfest’
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – “Lawrence of Arabia” in 70mm will be the big-screen opening act for the sixth annual Roger Ebert’s Overlooked Film Festival, or “Ebertfest,” coming April 21-25 to Champaign-Urbana. Joining “Lawrence” on the festival program will be “The General,” a restored Buster Keaton silent-film masterpiece, accompanied by a live orchestra, and “Gates of Heaven,” […]
Plantiff’s daughters in famed Brown v. Board case to lecture at U. of I.
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – Two daughters of the late Rev. Oliver Brown – for whom the landmark 1954 Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision was named – will give a lecture at 4 p.m. on March 11 in Foellinger Auditorium, 709 S. Mathews Ave., Urbana. Linda Brown Thompson and Cheryl Brown Henderson will speak […]
Software tool makes PowerPoint easier for disabled to use
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – Whether in the classroom or the boardroom, chalkboards have been replaced nearly universally by computer-aided audiovisual presentations that commonly involve a laptop computer and Microsoft PowerPoint software. And while that change has proved beneficial for most presenters and their audiences, a notable exception is for people with disabilities. People with a variety […]
School-university team makes baseball an exercise in learning
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – Baseball is pitching, hitting, running the bases. It’s also math, science, history, language arts … and the Internet. At least that’s the way some teachers see it in Danville, Ill., where a school-university partnership to promote technology use by student teachers has produced a learning tool based around the national pastime. The […]
Yearlong commemoration of Brown v. Board decision to begin
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – A commemoration of the landmark Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision begins this month at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and will continue throughout the school year. The decision that will be 50 years old next May ended legal segregation in public schools and helped ignite the civil rights […]
Teachers upgrade tech skills statewide
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – More than 400 Illinois teachers are upgrading their computer and technology skills this summer at eight sites throughout the state. The teachers are taking advantage of a weeklong institute, called “A Moveable Feast.” Now in its sixth year, the program, organized by the College of Education at the University of Illinois at […]
Chicago educator named new director of University High School
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – Kathleen Moroney Patton, the dean of academic affairs and assistant principal at Hales Franciscan High School in Chicago, has been named the new principal and director of University Laboratory High School, the laboratory school of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Patton is scheduled to begin work at Uni High on Aug. […]
Annual teacher placement day Thursday to draw fewer recruiters
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – Even as many schools face tightening budgets, their recruiters will be out in force Thursday (April 17) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, for the annual Teacher Placement Day. Almost 300 recruiters from 150 school districts, representing Illinois and 23 other states, will participate. The event will be from 9 a.m. […]
Media invited to view, experience training at Fire Service Institute
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – Members of the news media will have an opportunity on March 26 to view and experience aspects of the training given to thousands of firefighters and emergency personnel every year at the University of Illinois Fire Service Institute. The institute’s first Media Day, starting at 10 a.m., will give reporters the chance […]
New Internet-based tool aids communication for deaf
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – Deaf persons and those with whom they communicate now have a powerful tool at their disposal – a free Internet-based video relay system – which will get a local demonstration on Wednesday (March 19) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign campus. The demonstration will be at 6:30 p.m. in Room 2 […]