Education
Detroit on Thursday saw the installation of the first of the twenty tiny libraries that are to be put up as part of the Little Free Libraries movement in the Motor City.
Todd Bol, the founder of the Little Free Libraries movement, oversaw the installation of a small, glass-enclosed wooden...
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A Warren Mott High School student was rushed to the nearby St. John Macomb-Oakland Hospital on Monday, after he was pulled from the school's swimming pool unconscious.
The 16-year-old student, whose identity has not been revealed by school authorities, lost consciousness during a swimming...
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Grand Rapids school board on Monday approved a new three-year contract with the Grand Rapids Child Discovery Center - the area's only charter school authorized by the district.
The three-year district contract is retroactive to 1st of July, 2014, and scheduled to run through 30th of June...
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The Capital Area Literacy Coalition's "Read to Succeed" program, which helps Lansing area students in developing literacy skills after the school day ends, is celebrating 30 years of its sincere efforts.
The program recruits MSU students and provides them with professional training to...
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Ann Arbor Public School District will be provided with a grant of $1.4 million by the state government for the proposed annexation of Whitmore Lake schools, the Michigan Department of Education confirmed on Friday.
The grant will come from a fund of $4.3 million that has been created to...
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The Lansing School District has received a $760,000 grant as first annual installment of a five-year federal grant that aims to promote cultural awareness and prevent violence.
Sergio Keck, chief of instructional support programs for the school district, said they would create a new...
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Tata Technologies and the Detroit Lions have teamed up to provide Public Schools students of the city with a unique opportunity to learn more about the importance of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) from a diverse group of trained professionals.
The charity task...
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Technology giant Google announced on Tuesday that it would donate more than $230,000 to provide Detroit school students with various classroom materials ranging from paper, pencils and books to microscopes and laptops.
Nearly 261 Detroit area teachers had posted requests for donations on...
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Students of Loyola High School have sent an invitation to Pope Francis, the head of the Roman Catholic faith, to stop in Detroit in 2015.
The YouTube video features Loyola High School students, many of whom aren’t Catholic, inviting Pope Francis to the city. The video also features staff...
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Brendan Iribe, CEO of Oculus VR, a virtual reality company recently acquired by Facebook, started working with a personal computer in 1980s. According to Iribe, working with computers at that time had been the most amazing thing, as nobody had any idea that in some years, a computer would...
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Five high schools in the Grand Rapids area have been ranked among the top public high schools in the United States, according to Newsweek's latest report.
Newsweek's newly-released list of top 500 high schools includes East Grand Rapids High School, Rockford High School, Forest Hills...
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Detroit Public Schools on Wednesday closed a couple of hours early today to avoid imminent severe thunderstorms, which had been forecast to dump several inches of rain in Metro Detroit region over the next 24 hours.
School authorities said they decided to close all schools in the area two...
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