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$1 Million Grant Engaging Teachers, Learners, Devices

Grand Rapids Charles Honey

Students and teachers at Burton Elementary School have gotten a big boost in technology-aided learning, thanks to a $1 million grant of high-tech hardware...

No Objections to Mock Trial

Grand Rapids Charles Honey

Students from Gerald R. Ford Academic Center got a close-up look at criminal law, courtesy of the Western Michigan University Cooley Law School. Eighth-graders took...

Robots Take Over Schools for State, World Qualifiers

East Grand Rapids Charles Honey

Four Kenowa Hills students surrounded a box of wires, wheels and pulleys they called Judy, making last-minute adjustments. They had spent six weeks putting...

Students New to U.S. Struggle to Succeed, Overcome Stereotypes

Grand Rapids Charles Honey

For Union High seniors Sergio Diaz, Elida Deleon and Keyli Ventura-Valasquez, learning English was the key to everything else when it came to school....

Graduation Rates Up for Some, but Challenges Remain

Grand Rapids Charles Honey

When Claude Shukur came to Union High School in December 2012 as a 16-year-old refugee from Rwanda, he immediately faced a huge academic challenge:...

Grant Hits All the Right Notes with New Instruments

Grand Rapids Charles Honey

Kindergarten student Taylor Blackmon tucked a violin under her chin and began plucking its strings, one by one: E, A, D and G. The...

Health Advocate Jean Jilote: ‘Always Smiling, Always Available’

Grand Rapids Tom Rademacher

It's not two minutes into our interview, and already health advocate Jean Jilote is shedding tears. It's not that she's suffered some recent loss or...

Club Subtracts Fear from Math

Grand Rapids Charles Honey

Diamond Sparkman softly counts aloud as she measures the sides of a polygon displayed on a computer screen, trying to determine its area. “Seven...

Winning the Superhero Poster Contest

Forest Hills Morgan Jarema

The top 20 posters in this year's River City Water Festival Superheroes Contest have been selected and are on display through March 12 at...

Elementary Artists Send Creations to Brighten Seniors’ Rooms

Grand Rapids Charles Honey

The students of Coit Creative Arts Academy have found a champion for their art program in a state-champion equestrian, and senior citizens have found...

Jump-Start for Young Hearts

Grand Rapids Charles Honey

Malia Elzinga puffed and panted after several rounds of jumping rope. But the exertion was well worth it to the North Park Montessori third-grader. You...

Water Donation: ‘Anyone Can Make a Difference’

Grand Rapids Charles Honey

Two students helped teacher Peggy Luebs unload three cases of bottled water from her car, each containing 40bottles she bought on special at Costco....

For Special Needs Children, Research Shows Early Intervention Works

Empowering Abilities Charles Honey

One morning at his daughter’s school, Tom Walla watched contentedly as 3-year-old Libby pasted leaves onto a wreath with help from a teacher, then...

Energy-Efficiency Requires Constant Vigilance

Grand Rapids Charles Honey

On a frigid, snowy afternoon at Sibley Elementary School, students were bathed in light and perfectly warm as they worked. In a computer lab/library, natural...

Warm Feet, Warm Hearts

Grand Rapids Adrian Hirsch

While many C.A. Frost students were designing cupcakes, others were gathering socks. Sixth- through ninth-grade students held a drive that collected more than 250...

Everybody Wins at Cupcake Wars

Grand Rapids Charles Honey

Grand Rapids sixth-graders went to war with weapons of frosting and yummy cake, but the winners were children in need at Christmas. Cupcake Wars 2015...

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