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DPS: Equally Tragic

How's School Today? Ron Koehler

What if it were my child? Everyone in Michigan, and the nation, asks themselves that question as they contemplate the Flint water crisis. Long-term cognitive...

Journalist & Mom Humbled, Frustrated with High Stakes Testing

Kent ISD Erin Albanese

Well, that was... humbling. There are several things my children can do that I could once accomplish easily but can't so well anymore: A roundoff...

Community Members Sample New Standardized Tests

Issues in Education Erin Albanese

Parents, CEOs, journalists and community members stepped into the shoes of Michigan students recently taking a practice portion online of the new M-STEP assessment...

Substitute Teachers Share Experience, Tips

Kent ISD Linda Odette

Despite not being five feet tall, Mary Lun's unassuming ways and knowledge about teaching make her difficult to mess with when she works as...

So You Think You Can Sub?

Kent ISD Linda Odette

So you think you want to be a sub? Billboards and other advertisements have been seemingly everywhere for months seeking substitute teachers in an attempt...

Student Group Explores Latest Assistive Technology

Empowering Abilities Morgan Jarema

Tony Bonofiglo was trying to be as helpful as possible to the woman sitting across from him. She was wearing a blue plastic band...

Our Schools Rally to Help Flint Residents

Kent ISD Charles Honey

Sibley Elementary students made good on their promise – in a big way -- to send bottled water to fellow students in Flint. On a...

Students, Educators Show Off the Latest and Greatest in Teaching & Learning

Kent ISD Adrian Hirsch

More than 100 educators, business people and students from across the region are expected to participate in NovaNow, a two-day conference that spotlights innovations...

300 Area Students Get Inside Local Companies on Groundhog Shadow Day

Kent ISD Morgan Jarema

Miko Poot’s father worked with his hands, and that’s what the Wyoming High School senior imagines he’ll spend his professional life doing. But just...

Helping Parents Build Brighter Futures through Home Visits, Play

Classrooms for All Erin Albanese

Three busy boys play at Van Cung and Nzun Chin's house, pushing around trucks and bouncing on the couch. Staci Zuspann, Bright Beginnings parent educator,...

Too Much of a Good Thing

How's School Today? Ron Koehler

America is all about unfettered choice and free markets. Consumers daily face a tsunami of choices everywhere they turn. At some point, however, we may...

Hot Jobs in West Michigan

Kent ISD Erin Albanese

At the Health Sciences Early College Academy, students practiced drawing blood on a fake arm, providing range-of-motion therapy and taking one another's blood pressure....

High Schoolers’ Work with Kindergartners Yields ‘Remarkable Results’

Empowering Abilities Charles Honey

More than a dozen teenagers and young children sat politely in a circle on the gym floor. Then came the craziness. “Duck, duck, duck, duck...

Hitting the Airwaves for Clean Water

Forest Hills Morgan Jarema

A group of Forest Hills Central Middle and Northern Trails ⅚ School students (now at Northern Hills Middle) were on the air this month...

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...

PA 269: A Wall of Silence

How's School Today? Ron Koehler

When it's time to vote, when are you most confident of the decisions you make? Is it A: When you're well informed and can easily...

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School News Network reports on the 20 public school districts in Kent ISD, which enroll more than 102,000 students. Founded in 2013 as an initiative of Kent ISD, we are supported by local districts and community sponsors, and powered by an experienced team of reporters, editors and multimedia journalists. We specialize in covering classroom teaching and learning, analyzing the many issues facing students and highlighting the education magic that happens each day in our public schools.

Kent County Cup winner finds new career focus through esports

Student broadcaster pushes for positive coverage in advisory role

Retired teachers return as mentors

Friend, athlete, advocate uses abilities to help others

Marshmallows & math make for a sweet multiplication lesson

Senior makes artistic mark on snowplow

Initiative aims to double enrollment in career & technical education by 2030

Fourth-grade Choristers come together in song

High-schoolers share thoughts on school safety, engagement & more

Student broadcaster pushes for positive coverage in advisory role

On podcast, teen shares about major loss, forgiveness & gratitude

Poet pens work celebrating school library’s achievement

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