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Rising GRPS Grad Rates ‘A Community Effort’

Grand Rapids Charles Honey
Improving the district’s graduation rate by nearly 50 percent over five years takes a lot of people working together – and it will take...

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,...

Students Explore Hip-Hop as ‘Something that You Live’

Grand Rapids Charles Honey
Matthew Duncan lightly shakes a can of spray paint and, like the serious aerosol artist he is, deftly sprays an immaculate orange “o” on...

Donation Warms Students Doing Good for Others

Grand Rapids Charles Honey
On a chilly morning on Grand Rapids’ West Side, students enjoyed warm garb as they sawed, painted and took nail guns to a Habitat...

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...

Young Giants on the Move

Grand Rapids Tom Rademacher
You'll have to excuse Justice Shoalsand Hannibal Spencer if they appear more as a blur than standing still. It's just that these two young...

‘Guide Them in The Learning’

Grand Rapids Charles Honey
On a typical day at Grand Rapids Montessori School, several things are happening: Seventh-grader Tyrell Henriques is creating a poster about the social pyramid of...

Schoolhouse Rocks

Grand Rapids Charles Honey
Wendy Falb vividly remembers cleaning the filthy steps of Fountain School one day, back when her older son attended Montessori School there. Fixing up...

‘Free to Try, Free to Do Your Best’

Byron Center Charles Honey
For some students, inspiration came from a science teacher's lesson on the expanding universe. For others, it was reading "To Kill a Mockingbird" for...

‘We’re on the Right Track’

Godwin Heights Charles Honey
When Principal Tricia Mathes announced to her staff that their school had been taken off the state’s list of Priority Schools, they cheered and...

So Many Choices, and There’s Still Enough Time

Grand Rapids Charles Honey
The gym was filled with chatter and choices, as parents and students checked out possible schools to apply for in the 2017-18 school year. The...

Calling All Senses: Help Me Read!

Grand Rapids Erin Albanese
In a small room within the teacher's lounge, Southeast Elementary School fourth-grader Aubrianna Vernon focused on the consonant blend, "spr." With her index finger,...

Student Uses Award for Essay on Helping Homeless to Do Just That

Grand Rapids Charles Honey
Writing an essay about Rosa Parks brought Pearl McFall more than a $500 prize. It brought her to downtown Grand Rapids’ homeless haunts on...

Impacting America.. My Way

Grand Rapids Student Showcase School News Network
When I think about Rosa Parks and what she did, or how she impacted America, I begin to think of ways that I could...

Film Award Boosts Would-be Director’s Dreams

Grand Rapids School News Network
Aaron Voogt considered it a long shot, but he was willing to take the gamble. A year ago as he viewed contestants' work at the...

Students Learn Lessons While Learning to Give

Grand Rapids School News Network
Saul Vazquez can divide his eighth-grade classmates into two groups, and of the two he knows exactly where he wants to belong: the group...
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