Geneseo Community Unit School District 228
Geneseo Community Unit School District 228, also known as Geneseo Schools, is a public school district serving Geneseo, Illinois. Schools Middle schools *Geneseo Middle School High schools *Geneseo High School Geneseo High School is located in Geneseo, Illinois, United States. The school is part of the Geneseo Community Unit School District 228, which covers Geneseo, Atkinson, Illinois, Atkinson, and parts of Colona, Illinois, Colona. Academics In 2012 ... Alternative programs *Rock River Cooperative Alternative School (grades 6–12) *ExCEL program (grades 6–12) Elementary *Southwest *Millikin *Northside References External linksGeneseo Community Unit School District 228 Education in Henry County, Illinois School districts in Illinois {{Illinois-school-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Geneseo, Illinois
Geneseo is a city in Henry County, Illinois, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 6,539. Geneseo is 20 miles east of the Quad Cities, at the intersection of Interstate 80, U.S. Route 6 and Illinois Route 82. Geneseo is well known for its Victorian-style architecture, quaint downtown, and its successful high school music and football programs. History Geneseo was founded as a Christian colony in 1836 by seven families of the Congregationalist denomination from Geneseo, New York and Bergen, New York seeking to establish a "church in the wilderness". Roderick R. Stewart, one of the city's founding members, named the town Geneseo after the settlers' town of origin in New York. The name "Geneseo" is a variation of the Iroquois word Genesee, meaning "shining valley" or "beautiful valley". Journey Planning for the colony began as early as 1829. In May 1836 the founding seven families of Geneseo sent an exploratory committee to survey the precise location of their ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Geneseo High School
Geneseo High School is located in Geneseo, Illinois, United States. The school is part of the Geneseo Community Unit School District 228, which covers Geneseo, Atkinson, Illinois, Atkinson, and parts of Colona, Illinois, Colona. Academics In 2012 Geneseo High School was a ''U.S. News & World Report'' Silver Medal winner. Based on their criteria, Geneseo High School ranked #1427 (out of 22,000) in the US and ranked #52 (out of 672) in the state of Illinois. History The high school was originally an old building in the city park, but then moved to the former J. D. Darnall Jr. High School, which was relatively new. The old high school became the Geneseo Junior High School, which closed in 1998 with the opening of a new building, Geneseo Middle School. The high school was known as J. D. Darnall Senior High School until 2005, when it just became Geneseo High School. Demographics The demographic breakdown of the 833 students enrolled in 2013-14 was: *Male - 53.5% *Female - 46.5% *Na ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Education In Henry County, Illinois
Education is a purposeful activity directed at achieving certain aims, such as transmitting knowledge or fostering skills and character traits. These aims may include the development of understanding, rationality, kindness, and honesty. Various researchers emphasize the role of critical thinking in order to distinguish education from indoctrination. Some theorists require that education results in an improvement of the student while others prefer a value-neutral definition of the term. In a slightly different sense, education may also refer, not to the process, but to the product of this process: the mental states and dispositions possessed by educated people. Education originated as the transmission of cultural heritage from one generation to the next. Today, educational goals increasingly encompass new ideas such as the liberation of learners, skills needed for modern society, empathy, and complex vocational skills. Types of education are commonly divided into formal ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |