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Art on the fly: Ford Airport travelers see students’ self-expression on display

Forest Hills Morgan Jarema

Two ArtPrize entries from Forest Hills Public Schools students are being displayed at the Gerald R. Ford International Airport, one of them featuring a student’s special vision and the other hundreds of flowers...

Baseball, high school, happiness

Forest Hills Morgan Jarema

Amy Pallo is the new Eastern High School principal. SNN gets to know her in this edition of Meet the Principal...

If I have to be standardized, so do they

Forest Hills Student Showcase School News Network

Forest Hills Central High School Senior Reena Mathews reflects on her experience as a student taking standardized tests...

Stress test: students speak their minds on the M-STEP

Multi Districts Charles Honey

Rather than go back to the same hand-wringing sources about M-STEP scores, we decided to ask the people most directly affected by these tests: the students who take them...

Students explore many ways of worship

Multi Districts Erin Albanese

The four-day Interfaith Service Day Camp brought together 21 West Michigan students representing several religious and non-religious backgrounds to explore religions, get to know one another, enjoy food and culture, and volunteer...

Camping for credits? It’s a thing

Forest Hills Morgan Jarema

The year-long pilot class offered to freshmen at Eastern High combines honors biology or biology with health and physical education requirements into a two-hour block...

It’s all happening at the zoo

Forest Hills Morgan Jarema

Nearly 200 Central Woodlands ⅚ students worked in teams to research and develop plans for what they saw as an ideal renovated otter exhibit at John Ball Zoo...

Students help refugee peers adjust to life, schools in the U.S.

Multi Districts Morgan Jarema

Students from a handful of area high schools are making an impact at two West Michigan organizations tasked with helping refugee students and their families succeed...

For Gerald R. Ford student essay winners, courage begins at home

Multi Districts Hannah Lentz

More than 900 students submitted writings on the theme of courage for the annual Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation annual essay challenge...

Coming from struggle, Somali student wants to ‘change someone’s life’

Grads with Grit Morgan Jarema

A Forest Hills Northern High School graduate born in war-torn Somalia plans to leverage the opportunities he has been given in this country to help children and families adjust to the U.S. and its culture...

Compassion in verse, art and service

Forest Hills Morgan Jarema

The poetry activity was part of a larger collaboration to help students explore the concept of empathy

Student lawmakers for a day debate real bills, including uniforms, fuel tax and speed boats

Forest Hills Morgan Jarema

Government day is an experience-based approach to learning about basic government skills, specifically how a bill becomes a law. The entire day is completed through role play

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