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The Last Class Comes Back Home

Grand Rapids Charles Honey
Walking through a first-floor, artfully decorated condominium, Steven Mazurek pointed toward the floor and said, “I sat right here. It was seventh grade. This...

Teachers Stock Up on Class Supplies, with Help

Godfrey-Lee Erin Albanese
Wyoming's Parkview Elementary School teachers demonstrated their love for new school supplies at the Teacher Resource Store, where they left with cartloads of notebooks,...

Students Produce PSA to Help Grow Green GR

Grand Rapids Charles Honey
Grand Rapids Mayor Rosalynn Bliss wants to increase the city’s tree canopy, and Grand Rapids Public Schools students are helping her do it using...

Planting Their Little Patch of Green

Grand Rapids Dianne Carroll Burdick
The grounds around Mulick Park Elementary School have serious erosion issues, to the point of their storm drains being clogged with sediment. That problem...

‘It motivates me to do better in school’

Grand Rapids Charles Honey
Francisco McKnight just finished his freshman year at Union High School, but he’s already thinking ahead to college. That’s due in large part to...

An Arts School Takes the Stage

Grand Rapids Charles Honey
Baton in hand, Jaeda Selden led fellow second-graders Kamellah Kidd and Lizzariah Robertson in practicing a song from “The Wiz.” Taking a break for...

Free Books for Students ‘Means the World to Them’

Grand Rapids Charles Honey
When she and her classmates recently gave more than 2,700 books to Gerald R. Ford Academic Center, Chianne TerHaar was happy to know she’d...

Neal: ‘Stay with Me, Stay with These Children’

Grand Rapids Charles Honey
Teresa Weatherall Neal was happy to highlight a raft of community supporters at her State of Our Schools address, from the Steelcase Foundation to...

Student Brings STEM to Nearby District

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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...

Bringing School to Home and Hospital

Grand Rapids Linda Odette
No one expects an accident or illness to keep a student out of school, but when it happens, students meet Emily Howell. She's the...

Teaching About Climate Change: A Loaded Lesson

Grand Rapids Erin Albanese
Teacher Mary Lewandoski remembers a student making a firm statement while studying endangered species: "It's all because of humans." "Save that thought," Lewandoski recalled telling...

Students Dig Greening up Their City

Grand Rapids Charles Honey
District students are growing their city’s green canopy, one tree at a time. Make that dozens of trees at a time. Students from Union High...

Revived Program Attracts Student Artists, Musicians

Grand Rapids Charles Honey
From imaginative paintings and sculptures to soothing songs and a silky sax solo, Union High and Westwood Middle school students recently shared their artistic...

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...

Students Do Battle with ‘Bots, Steampunk Style

East Grand Rapids Erin Albanese
Busy 'bots, moving gears and quick-thinking pilots converged at the For Inspiration & Recognition of Science & Technology (FIRST) Robotics district finals at East...

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...
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