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iPads Help Individualize Lessons, Lead to ‘Higher Level Thinking’

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Mario Suarez says he learns better when using an iPad in his special education classroom at Harrison Park School. The 8-year-old second-grader is among a...

Ford Students Review Rare Documents While Researching School Namesake

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Thirteen-year-olds Delmy Rivera and Raquel Santos along with their classmates at Gerald R. Ford Academic Center have spent part of their school year researching...

Winning Submissions from Annual MLK Essay Contest

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A record 327 essays were entered for the 10th annual Warner Norcross & Judd LLP Martin Luther King Jr. essay contest earlier this year....

My Hero, My Friend

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Winners of the 2015 MLK Essay Contest A record 327 essays were entered for the 10th annual Warner Norcross & Judd LLP Martin Luther King...

What Can You Do to Accomplish a Dream?

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We all have a dream no matter where we live or who we are. Everybody DREAMS! Some people have selfish dreams like to win...

My Super Heroes

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Heroes and role models use their gifts to help make the world a better place. They put the needs of others in front of...

GRPS will ask voters to approve $175 million bond issue in November

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Voters in the Grand Rapids Public Schools will be asked in November to approve a $175 million bond issue for building construction, technology improvements...

Parent University Building Stronger Families

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With a seven-year-old son diagnosed with autism, Grand Rapids Public Schools parent Deanna Wilson has some special challenges. She'd been educated by doctors and counselors...

Challenge Scholars Helps Reinvigorate West Side

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There's a lot of positive energy emanating from Grand Rapids' West Side and many say at least some of it is because of the...

Reading, Writing and ‘Rithmetic? How About Manufacturing, Marketing & Sales?

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It may be a little unusual that a 17-year-old is already the CEO of a company but the venture headed by Rolando Garcia is...

Parents Promote GRPS in New Campaign

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Steve and Nora Faber want their kids’ education to be something special so they chose the dual English Spanish Immersion program at Southwest Community...

Partnerships Spark Explosion in Robotics Programs

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By all accounts, Bobbijo Zoerhof is a good teacher, but she admits to being stymied when it came to helping her students program a...

GRPS Forges Partnerships with Neighborhood Associations

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When Principal Bridget Cheney looks at Congress Elementary School she sees a vibrant community following on the heals of the decade-long revitalization happening in...

New Vision for Downtown Grand Rapids, GRPS

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Grand Rapids residents in the coming years may see Innovation Central High School much the same way as it appeared when it was first...

Parents Applaud New C. A. Frost Leader

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When Greg Ramey took over as principal of C.A. Frost Environmental Science Academy in Nov. 2013, he asked his staff to think back to...

Student Numbers Show Transformation Plan is Working, Leaders Say

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The news that Grand Rapids Public Schools lost far fewer students than projected is evidence that Superintendent Teresa Weatherall Neal’s Transformation Plan is working,...

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