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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...

Parents Respond: Students are Being Over-tested

Issues in Education School News Network

Public school parents' top priorities for their children should be raising their level of hope and maintaining a high level of interest in what...

Computer Fields Beckon Girls to Great Careers

Kent City Erin Albanese

Rachel Bowman likes robots so much she wants to own a robotics company someday. She spends half her school day in the Information Technologies...

Survey Says: You Like Us, You Really Like Us

Kent ISD Morgan Jarema

Newsflash: Readers really like School News Network for news about students in their school districts that other media just doesn't cover. And your No....

Students Speak Out About Mental Health

Grandville Charles Honey

For students battling anxiety and depression, sometimes the greatest stress comes from seeking success. In today’s culture of high-stakes testing, high-cost college and all-everything excellence,...

Change for the Good

Kent ISD Morgan Jarema

Evidence of goodwill filled the halls of Kent Transition Center and Kent Career Tech Center in the weeks leading up to the holiday break. At...

Start College Planning Early, Experts Say

East Grand Rapids Erin Albanese

Focus on your GPA, get involved, develop good study habits. Students can start preparing for college as early as freshman year, which makes it...

Headed to College? What You Must Know

Kent ISD Charles Honey

College costs and career options being what they are, students heading toward higher education would do well to keep a few basics in mind....

It’s About Time

How's School Today? Ron Koehler

Good things happen to those who wait. Having not read the entire 1,016 pages of the Every Student Succeeds Act, signed into law by President...

Chinese Educators Study Tech Center, Innovation High

Kent ISD Erin Albanese

Kent Career Tech Center and Kent Innovation High School recently attracted international attention from a group of Chinese instructors looking to learn about education...

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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.

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