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Student Brings STEM to Nearby District

Multi Districts School News Network
A Central Woodlands fifth-grader turned a little TV-watching time into a golden opportunity to reach students who maybe haven't had the same opportunities she...

Simultaneous Kite-Making Launches Goodwill Across Oceans

Forest Hills School News Network
Homemade kites connected elementary students nearly 2,000 miles apart as part of what they dubbed "One World, One Sky." Students from Forest Hills Central, Eastern...

Vietnam Vets Bring Realities of War Back Home to Students

Cedar Springs School News Network
Speaking to juniors at their alma mater, a pair of Vietnam veterans provided students both with historical perspective and a lesson more personal. Chuck Smith...

Designing and Building the Perfect Pulley System, in One Act

Kent ISD School News Network
Noah Pittman said one thought came to mind when he and his classmates saw the project. The Engineering & Architectural Design students at Kent Career...

Mind Sports Roundup

Mind Sports Roundup School News Network
Editor's note: Academic competition season is upon us! In Mind Sports Roundup, School News Network will be running roundups of events including Odyssey of...

Leaders to Young Males: Make Smart Choices

Grand Rapids School News Network
Nathaniel Stanley knows how easy it would have been to take the wrong path. The Davenport University sophomore said that's the importance of conferences like...

‘The Culture Has Changed’

Issues in Education School News Network
After being placed on a list of low-achieving schools in 2010, the district's high school swung into action. Now, some of its practices are...

Learning to Love Reading

Cedar Springs School News Network
After the school day ends, second-graders at Beach Elementary are still at work to become masters of the alphabet. In "super switch" groups based on...

Mind Sports Roundup

Forest Hills School News Network
Editor's note: Academic competition season is upon us! Each week School News Network will be running roundups of events including Odyssey of the Mind,...

Young Authors Learn from Published Ones — and Each Other

Cedar Springs School News Network
A room full of authors gathered at Cedar Springs Middle School. One was a guest speaker, author David Stricklen, and the rest were seventh-graders. Students...

Providing Creature Comforts, on Their Own

Kent City School News Network
Leopard geckos, degus, a sand boa, fishes and a painted turtle all call Steve McClintock's science classroom home. In the morning before the bell rings,...

‘We Wanted to Thank Them’

Northview School News Network
Frank Budnick remembers the shock after stepping off his ship in Seattle. A few months after being in Yokohama Harbor to witness the Japanese surrender...

Lab Brings Farming, Ecology Lessons to Students

Sparta School News Network
Crowded inside a mobile science lab outside Appleview Elementary, fourth-graders discovered how farmers use science to maintain clean water. Dropping purple food coloring from a...

And the Wheels on the Bus are Children’s Feet

Grand Rapids School News Network
Tyonna Jackson ordinarily enjoys the four-block walk to school, but there was one brutal day this winter when riding a bus would have come...

Building a Dream Into Reality

Classrooms for All School News Network
I see the horror figures portrayed in the media. I flinch and glower at the images of helpless people, abandoned and alone, drowning in...

‘They Learn by Music’

Empowering Abilities School News Network
A drum beat echoes down the halls of Sparta's Appleview Elementary. The source: a boisterous bunch of musicians keeping a beat and dancing to the...
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