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Tony Bonofiglo: ‘We Are All Different in Some Way’

Kent ISD Tom Rademacher
Well, kids, I hate to break it to you, but while some of you sigh your way through another summer, wondering how to occupy...

‘Blown Away by Awesomeness’

Kent ISD Erin Albanese
During the 5-Minute Design Challenge, Kent Innovation High School students worked together on creating new and improved cat strollers. You could say it was...

Sculpting Real Helping Hands

Comstock Park School News Network
A trio of Kent Career Tech Center 3D Animation students from Comstock Park and Sparta high schools recently had the opportunity to turn their...

Future Takes Flight: ‘I Will Do Whatever It Takes’

Grads with Grit Charles Honey
Nolte Cunningham’s first experience on a plane was really bad. He was about 6 years old, on a flight taking his sister to the...

‘I’ll Saw this Wood Up – I’m Not Scared of It’

East Grand Rapids School News Network
From the courtroom to the archery range and beyond, a quartet of female high school students are breaking into fields dominated by males. Two Kent...

Take the Quiz – How Would They Vote?

How's School Today? Ron Koehler
Here's a quiz: Given their track record, how do you think Michigan legislators would vote on a bill to lower school property taxes on...

Science Learning through Play, Discovery

Byron Center Erin Albanese
As Next Generation Science Standards are implemented in classrooms nationwide, students are beginning to think like scientists as young as kindergarten, paving the way...

Students, Businesses Give Grand Salute to Armed Forces

Kent ISD Erin Albanese
While eating lunch next to retired Admiral Eric Olson, Kenowa Hills High School junior Nick Reardon asked what it was like to command the Navy SEALs team that captured and killed Osama bin Laden. "That's an incredible accomplishment," Nick said...

Pressure Builds for SkillsUSA Nationals

East Grand Rapids Morgan Jarema
In a few weeks, Dominic Krupp will be part of a two-person team tasked with coming up with an idea for a short video,...

Is Ranking 39th Acceptable? Effects from Snyder Tax Cuts

How's School Today? Ron Koehler
One tough nerd rolled to the governor’s office in January 2011 and later that year the Legislature handed him a huge victory at the...

Spelling Bee Winner off to National Bee

East Grand Rapids Morgan Jarema
The third time was the charm for Aiden Mischley. The Forest Hills eighth-grader bested 18 students from six counties on March 22 to take first...

Following Dad’s Passion Deep Into a Diesel Engine

Kent ISD School News Network
When Sparta senior Alyssa Graham was still in an infant car seat, she would stretch toward the window and yell "Corvette!" whenever she spotted...

Back to the Future — National Career Readiness Certificate Gears Grads for Jobs

How's School Today? Ron Koehler
Hot off the presses is a new book titled "Reskilling America: Learning to Labor in the 21st Century," which encourages educators and policymakers to...

Building a Better Back-Up

Kent City School News Network
If engineers look at the world and ask, "What could work better?" Caleb Sible would probably say forklift driving. The pros must agree, since judges...

STEM Career Exploration Program Earns Kudos, $5,000 Check

Kent ISD Morgan Jarema
An innovative new program of Kent Career Tech Center has $5,000 more in its budget. Design Lab won a March 15 competition during the Governor’s Economic and...

Early Childhood Fair April 23 Offers Dozens of Resources

Kent ISD Morgan Jarema
Finding just the right childcare provider or preschool for your child takes a lot of time and leg-work. Even Michael Ghareeb, director of Early Childhood...
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