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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...

Tech Center Students Honored as State Officers

Kent ISD Adrian Hirsch

Kudos to three Kent Career Tech Center students selected as SkillsUSA State Officers. As State Officers they are required to speak publically about SkillsUSA...

Students Adopt #myparty2014 Platforms to Persuade Politicians

Kent ISD Adrian Hirsch

At the height of election season, students in Kent Innovation High's Civics and American Studies classes presented political campaigns to educators, politicians, and peers,...

Voters Approve Millage Renewals in All Requesting Districts

Kent ISD Charles Honey

The Nov. 4 elections were important to the funding and governance of the Kent ISD’s 20 local school districts. All held elections for school...

For Most Students, Achievement Reflects Income

Kent ISD Charles Honey

The higher the poverty, the lower the test scores. That’s the general story of academic achievement in Kent County public schools. Further, students’ economic hardships...

Teaching Children in Poverty: A New Series from SNN

Kent ISD Charles Honey

Tuesday, School News Network launches a continuing series on poverty in the schools and how it affects students’ learning. We will examine not only...

Special Ed Director Receives Distinguished Award

Kent ISD School News Network

There’s a rumor circulating around Kent ISD that Special Education Director Laurie VanderPloeg has a couple of identical sisters. Not just one, but two. “But...

“Techies” Convene to Share Tricks at EdTech Rally, Learn from Each Other

Kent ISD Adrian Hirsch

Technology specialists from districts across the region recently spent a day together at Kent ISD for workshops and picking each other’s brain to find...

The Lost Decade

How's School Today? Ron Koehler

Now he tells us. In an extraordinarily introspective interview with The Bridge online magazine, state superintendent Mike Flanagan recently acknowledged Michigan was “10 years behind”...

Educators Aim to Edify Students with New Data-Driven Program

Kent ISD Charles Honey

Students Josh Bolter and Julia Vu were about to tackle an ecology project in their biology class at Kent Innovation High. Before they got...

Real World Education at The Tech Center

Kent ISD School News Network

Kent Career Technical Center offers real life learning to prepare high school students for careers. The center is part of the Kent Intermediate School...

Tech Center Culinary Program Featured on Maranda and in Partnerships Award

Kent ISD School News Network

A unique partnership between Kent Career Tech Center and Ferris State University (FSU) that provides high school culinary students with college courses, was honored...

Parents’ Pride Mingles with Hopes for Higher Ed

Kent ISD School News Network

Pride in their children and hope they might be the first in their families to go to college, brought area families to the 2nd...

Kent ISD and Lowell Rock Orchestra Selected for Arts Advocacy Award

Kent ISD School News Network

Student musicians joined educators on stage Oct. 23 as State Farm representatives present a check to Kent ISD to fund the Rock Orchestra Arts...

Information Technology Systems Increase Schools Effectiveness

Kent ISD Adrian Hirsch

Handwritten forms, spelling errors, manual entry, permission for access, even lost information. These are some of the issues that plagued old special education record-keeping...

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Dads demonstrate dedication to students and learning

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Book battle promotes literacy, teamwork

Future health care pros sample multiple career focuses

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