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Typical Teen Stuff or Serious Mental Health Issue?

Youth Mental Health Jaye Beeler

For a while now, high school English teacher Sheri Gilreath-Watts has been teaching from Judith Guest's novel "Ordinary People," about a suicidal boy home...

Districts Scramble to Find Bus Drivers

All Districts Erin Albanese

Area schools are experiencing the nationwide shortage of bus drivers, putting transportation departments in a pinch to get students on the bus in the morning and back home after the final bell at a reasonable time.

‘The Goal is to Keep Them Reading’

Classrooms for All Janice Holst

Second-graders Leonel Santiago and Carlos Saldana hit an exciting benchmark this fall: They started reading their first chapter books. Besides helping them learn the important...

‘Communities are Going to See Repercussions’

All Districts Charles Honey

In the library of Harrison Park School, Ryan Rose read aloud from a book about African animals as a dozen students listened expectantly. “We all...

Grant Brings Sex Ed Instruction to Students with Special Needs

Empowering Abilities Erin Albanese

Eighth-grader Bryan Galvez aptly summarized the consequences of healthy versus risky decisions when it comes to teens and sex. “Would you rather have a...

‘The Culture Has Changed’

Issues in Education School News Network

After being placed on a list of low-achieving schools in 2010, the district's high school swung into action. Now, some of its practices are...

Signs of Understanding

Empowering Abilities Erin Albanese

Senior Nathan Ketchpaw uses sign language with big motions –– wide arms, a broad grin. His favorite sign? "Lion," he demonstrates, running his hand...

‘A Chance to Have a Meaningful Life’

Caledonia Erin Albanese

Dutton Elementary School second-grader Daniel Donaldson uses pictures and words on his talker to say what he needs to say. "The device gives me...

Thanks to English Tutoring, ‘I Can Learn a Lot of Things’

Classrooms for All Charles Honey

Rose Sanreta had had a big day at Northview High School: a test in finance class, a quiz in English, reviewing World History for...

Building a Dream Into Reality

Classrooms for All School News Network

I see the horror figures portrayed in the media. I flinch and glower at the images of helpless people, abandoned and alone, drowning in...

‘They Learn by Music’

Empowering Abilities School News Network

A drum beat echoes down the halls of Sparta's Appleview Elementary. The source: a boisterous bunch of musicians keeping a beat and dancing to the...

Language, Culture and ‘Jambo!’

Classrooms for All Erin Albanese

Sixth grade teacher Rebecca Bing remembers a particularly tough day at school. She walked down the hall, feeling a little tired and pensive. Suddenly,...

Education Nominee Generates Concerns And Hopes for Future

All Districts Charles Honey

As someone who taught for 25 years, is the daughter of teachers and married one, Mary Bouwense’s life has been steeped in public schooling....

Finding True North

All Districts School News Network

Brandi Pilcher knew she was going in the wrong direction, but didn't know how to change course. That is, until she found her north...

From Desperation to Diploma: A Somali Refugee’s Story

Classrooms for All Erin Albanese

Note from the author: I met Arafat Abdikarim Yassin last February while visiting East Kentwood High School to write about the school's refugee population....

Helping with Stress at the Holidays

Grandville Morgan Jarema

When Karen Hoekstra was in high school, there was no "be nice" committee, and talking about mental illness just didn't happen, she said. "Had there...

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