School News Network
Making a kinder girl world: ‘It’s good to be a girl’
The FearlesslyGirl program finished up its inaugural year at Grandville Middle School with 12 members
Zoo visit by students for students
Some 125 Stoney Creek Elementary kindergartners toured John Ball Zoo and were led by zoo school students
Mind Sports Roundup
School News Network will be running roundups of events including Odyssey of the Mind, Science Olympiad, MathCounts and robotics
Students seek ways to attract more people into teaching
Teams of Kent Innovation High students were challenged to research the causes of the shortage of college students training to be teachers, and formulate a possible way for GVSU's College of Education to address the problem
East GR’s Jack Lado takes the title at Spelling Bee with “bollo”
For nearly 15 minutes, totaling 18 rounds, Jack Lado and Aashray Mandala matched each other, word for word, until Aashray slipped and Jack won the 41st annual Greater Grand Rapids Spelling Bee
A student’s perspective on March for Our Lives: ‘I helped make that happen’
Northview High School junior Morgan King shares her perspective on the March for Our Lives and the student movement to make schools safer
Wyoming, EGR and TK superintendents announce retirements
Tom Reeder, superintendent of Wyoming Public Schools, and Sara Shubel, superintendent of East Grand Rapids Public Schools, announced their retirements last week, after Tom Enslen of Thornapple Kellogg announced his last month
Students take action, lend voices to honor Florida school victims and plead for violence...
The number 17 served as a marker not only for moments of silence in honor of those killed, but for students’ thoughts on how to make schools safer and kinder
Students reflect on play where a young Gerald Ford and black teammate tackle a...
Related Black History Month stories
Underground railroad module turns fourth-graders into historians
Technology turns biography reports into multimedia efforts
The documentary, "Black and Blue: The Story of Gerald Ford, Willis Ward, and the 1934 Michigan-Georgia Tech Football Game," debuted in 2011. In...
A Shadower’s-eye View of Job Shadow Day
One cannot simply learn from a classroom or a computer the insights and experiences that reside in a workforce, beyond the education bubble and removed from the nurtured opinions with which parents heavily equip their kids. I have no...
Student Suspense Story Excerpts
Leah Sajdek’s eighth -grade language arts classroom studied concepts involved in suspense writing, and found their 'inner Poe'
Student Writings for Theatre by the Numbers: A Sampling
Student submissions from Nancy Hoffman’s Advanced Theatre Arts Class, highlighted in the related story: The Play’s the Thing; So’s the Writing
"Side Effects" by Heaven Rademaker
Hello, over-the-counter medication.
Hi, it's me again. I know I keep calling with complaints but poison...
Don’t Just Tweak the Telegraph
Commentary by Kevin Polston, Superintendent, Godfrey-Lee Public Schools
One of the universal shared American experiences is our public education system. Our country takes pride in the roots of public education and how it has served to provide opportunity for any...
Rockford’s Roguewood Elementary says ‘bienvenido’ to School News Network
If you want to look into what is going on in schools around West Michigan, there is a tool that gives you the inside scoop. School News Network covers 20 Kent ISD public school districts and depicts what the...
How We Can Help Harvey Victims from Home
Written by Forest Hills Central High student Sophie Bolen. This piece originally was published in The Central Trend. Republished with permission.
As the rain trickles down my window, I can’t help feel anything but gratitude. I am engulfed in dryness,...
Back to School, Five Times Over
There was excitement in the halls of Comstock Park Public Schools Monday, but it was a lot earlier than usual.
Nancy Dahl sat at the attendance window in the main office at the high school, and worked with practiced efficiency...
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