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Play Makes Great Way to Practice New Language

Forest Hills Linda Odette

After a year of chatting via an instant messaging app with their friend Louie Li in Shanghai, China, two students in the district's Mandarin...

Honing the Ruchir Technique

Forest Hills Morgan Jarema

Ruchir Gupta became enamored at a young age of tinkering with all things mechanical: elementary school Science Olympiad, building bottle rockets and a mousetrap-powered...

Parking Lot Painted with ‘Positivity & Joy’

Comstock Park Charles Honey

On a gray-grit city parking lot through some of this summer’s hottest days, a dozen students painted a bright path of hope. Their zig-zag creation...

Paddling, Early Settler Style

Forest Hills Morgan Jarema

It's almost certain that neither the Native Americans nor the early settlers sat on the banks of the Grand River some 200 years ago...

New Group Gives More Parents a Voice

Forest Hills Charles Honey

As a mother with three children in public schools, Barbara McFall wants to support her children’s educational experience. But sometimes she senses a wall...

Around the World in Two Hours

Forest Hills Morgan Jarema

Musa Hammad admitted he didn't make the baba ghanoush he was passing out samples of smeared on pita bread, but the sixth-grader said he...

All Things Salmon-y, Liberation Day

Forest Hills Morgan Jarema

They grow up so fast. We introduced you earlier this year to Pine Ridge Elementary fourth-graders involved in a year-long Michigan Department of Natural Resources...

Fifth-grader’s Story Tops with Readers

East Grand Rapids Morgan Jarema

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...

How Clean Water Boosts School Attendance

Forest Hills Morgan Jarema

Alex Kaufmann and Sofia Debano joined their classmates in the Central Woodlands 5/6 school gymnasium recently to culminate a service learning project centered on 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...

It’s Showtime for Student-designed Production

Forest Hills Morgan Jarema

Trenton Brink twirled around wearing a purple jacket and top hat as he sang the gentle opening lines of "Pure Imagination," from the book...

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...

Disable the Label

Forest Hills Morgan Jarema

Josh Vandyk has been called names by his peers. "Monster" is one that particularly hurt, he said. There have been others. And he's heard...

Winning the Superhero Poster Contest

Forest Hills Morgan Jarema

The top 20 posters in this year's River City Water Festival Superheroes Contest have been selected and are on display through March 12 at...

Area Special Education Teams Shoot and Score!

Byron Center School News Network

Kenowa Hills High School recently hosted for the second year a regional Special Olympics basketball tournament. Schools from Byron Center, Sparta, Forest Hills, Thornapple...

Celebrating Chinese Culture All Year

Forest Hills Morgan Jarema

As a college student, Yang Du pictured himself teaching English to students in his native China. Instead, he's teaching his native Chinese to students...

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