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Special Ed Student Efforts Underwrite Free Family Stays at Ronald McDonald House

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Taking a tour of Ronald McDonald House of Western Michigan, eight high school students were knocked out by the recreation room. “Oh, nice!” one of...

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

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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...

Pressure Builds for SkillsUSA Nationals

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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,...

Fifth-grader’s Story Tops with Readers

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When the boat she was solo sailing on Reed's Lake last summer capsized, Rachel Anne Williamson could see her mom onshore and knew her...

Spelling Bee Winner off to National Bee

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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...

Robots Take Over Schools for State, World Qualifiers

East Grand Rapids Charles Honey

Four Kenowa Hills students surrounded a box of wires, wheels and pulleys they called Judy, making last-minute adjustments. They had spent six weeks putting...

‘To Be Dramatic, Or Not To Be…’

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Middle school students can be so dramatic. That's especially true in the middle school's fledgling Shakespeare club. Case in point: a recent rehearsal of a scene...

Elementary Rhyme Time

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A scientific article about the moon might not sound particularly poetic, but Laura Purdie Salas is all about finding poetry anywhere -- and helping...

EGR Millage Requests Approved

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East Grand Rapids Public Schools voters on Tuesday approved a trio of tax requests by nearly three to one. Two of the district's millage renewal...

EGR Millage Vote Is Today

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East Grand Rapids Public Schools voters will go to the polls today on a trio of tax requests. Two of the district’s millage renewal requests...

High School Earns International Baccalaureate Designation

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You definitely could call East Grand Rapids High School sophomores Clara Luce and Keegan Sullivan avid learners. "Just talking about learning, to me, is really...

High School TEDx to “Burst Bubbles”

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Just about a year ago, Marie Lachance could sum up her state of mind as “nervous but hopeful,” though her friend Anna Laffrey would...

District Seeks Tax Renewals, Full Headlee Funding

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East Grand Rapids Public Schools is the only Kent County school district with a March 8 tax proposal -- a trio of them, in...

New Technology Helps Kindergartners with Math

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Lakeside Elementary kindergartner Charlotte Kanaan stood beside teacher Shannon Mitchell and worked through a math problem, which her classmates could see thanks to a...

History, Geography Collide with Writing, Art and Math in ‘Around the World’ Exploration

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Lilly Vydareny said doing school lessons strictly from books is “sometimes pretty boring.” So when her fifth-grade class at Lakeside Elementary started an interactive “Journey...

Fun Furniture Invites Readers into New Learning Commons

East Grand Rapids Morgan Jarema

Teacher Katie McIntosh’s kindergartners made their way into Lakeside Elementary’s recently opened Learning Commons and quickly made themselves right at home. A group of girls...

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