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Summer Migrant Program Stimulates New Generation of Possibilities

Classrooms for All School News Network
While scores of area children can be heard frolicking in the summer sun, an all together different buzz resonates inside the district's middle school...

Wanted: Substitute Teachers. Lots of Them

All Districts Charles Honey
On the next-to-last day of school, all of North Godwin Elementary School’s teachers were present except for one, the physical-education teacher. Ella Moran, a...

Most Threats Not Credible, But Districts Prepare to Respond

Issues in Education Erin Albanese
Though real bombs are almost never preceded by warnings, school districts need step-by-step policies in place to respond to every incident, law enforcement officials...

Helping Students Grow After Bullying Incidents

All Districts Charles Honey
When Tarena VanDyke was accused of bullying another student, it really hurt, she said. “I’ve never seen myself as a bully,” said the Northview High...

Gay-Straight Alliances Foster Safe Haven for LGBT Students

All Districts School News Network
The laughter inside the classroom reaches a crescendo when Caleb Smith hauls out Bruce the Shark — the somewhat official mascot of Rockford High...

Teachers Tweak Instruction to Engage Students at All Learning Levels

All Districts Erin Albanese
Discovery Elementary School's first-grade classrooms were bustling with activity. In one room, students read parts in the play "The City Mouse and The Country...

Test Stress: Weighing Balance of Time, Data, Effort

Issues in Education Erin Albanese
Comstock Park High School Principal Steve Gough knows too well the stress of cramming more testing into the classroom -- and crowding out valuable...

Amid Mounting Pressures, Districts Face Changing Tests and Schedules

Issues in Education Erin Albanese
Following months of back-and-forth debate from the state concerning Common Core, the national set of educational standards, teachers and administrators now are preparing for...

Schools Spend Big to Tighten Security: ‘We Live in a Different World’

Issues in Education Charles Honey
Lyza Hockemeyer says she generally feels pretty safe at Northview High School. But when she hears about bomb threats that have been made to...

Girls vs. Boys in School: A Growing Gap

Issues in Education Charles Honey
While women have overtaken men in college-going rates and college degrees in recent decades, K-12 school girls have outperformed boys for nearly a century,...

Among Top 10 Grads, Girls Top Boys (Again)

Issues in Education Charles Honey
Soon after arriving at Harvard University this fall, Kanon Dean realized he was going to have to buckle down big-time in order to hack...

‘I Want to Make a Difference’

Classrooms for All Charles Honey
Gregoria Nava drives down a narrow lane through an apple orchard to a small cluster of migrant worker cabins. She’s come here on a...

R.I.P. to Stereotypes of Low-income Students

Godwin Heights School News Network
They can’t learn like my other students. They’re too lazy to finish their homework. They’ll never go to college. They’ll live in poverty all their lives. When stereotypes...

Educators Urge State to Scrap ‘Flawed’ Performance Funding

Issues in Education Charles Honey
Rockford Public Schools could lose $80,000 in the coming school year because of a supposed decline in academic achievement. Problem is, officials don't know...

Beyond Teen Nation, Students Battle Bullying Every Day

Issues in Education Charles Honey
Walking down a hallway of Kenowa Hills High School, Karley Lynn Mead said not everyone sees the bullying that sometimes goes on in her...

Year-round School Calendars May Not Suit All Districts, Administrators Say

Grand Rapids Erin Albanese
Michigan students have gotten used to clearing out lockers during the first week of June with a long summer stretching lazily ahead. A post-Labor...
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