DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — As a boy growing up in Kingsley, Adam Zellmer remembers winter school cancellations as carefree days filled with sledding, snowball fights and snow forts. Now, as superintendent of South Hardin Community Schools, Zellmer starts inclement winter mornings by driving ...
ESCANABA — Bay College began offering courses in the fall 2020 semester for the Certified Medical Assistant certificate program. With the fall 2020 semester complete, the program has gained momentum and is seeing growth from 7 students to 25 new students either enrolled in or in the ...
MARQUETTE — Northern Michigan University Registrar Kim Rotundo received a personal letter from Gov. Gretchen Whitmer praising her leadership in making it easier for students to transfer credits among Michigan’s higher education institutions. Whitmer also congratulated Rotundo on her ...
CARAHUE, Chile — Thousands of people gathered in the Chilean region of La Araucanía on Monday to witness a solar eclipse, rejoicing in the rare experience even though visibility was limited because of cloudy skies. Skies were clear in northern Patagonia in Argentina, where people also ...
NEW YORK — Book publishing in 2020 was a story of how much an industry can change and how much it can, or wants to, remain the same. “A lot of what has happened this year — if it were a novel, I would say that it had a little too much plot,” said Simon & Schuster CEO Jonathan ...
LANSING — Lt. Gov. Garlin Gilchrist II recently announced that Henry Ford College and Dearborn Public Schools have launched the state’s first Financial Empowerment Curriculum, which teaches youth the basic principles of managing their money. The pilot program represents the beginning of ...
MARQUETTE — Northern Michigan University alumnus Jeff Vande Zande has published his latest collection of short stories. “The Neighborhood Division” travels down the shady lanes of the American neighborhood. From kids egging windows to lost joggers and insomniacs to basement prisoners ...
LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) — Suzette Haywood intended to retire from her career as a teacher last year, but when the COVID-19 pandemic caused education to practically be turned upside down, she knew she couldn’t call it quits. “I didn’t want to end on that kind of a note,” Haywood told ...
MARQUETTE — Michigan College Access Network is partnering with San Diego State University’s Center for Equity and Postsecondary Attainment to launch the School Counselor Fellows Program. The two-year program will provide ongoing mentorship and training. One of the chosen counselors is ...
MARQUETTE — Local novelist and historical fiction writer John Smolens will do a Zoom reading from his new novel “Day of Days” as part of Peter White Public Library’s Authors Reading Virtually monthly. The book revolves around the real-life events of a school bombing that took place ...
ESCANABA — Inspired by the GI Bill which provided college education to those serving their country in World War II, “Futures for Frontliners” is a tuition-free pathway aimed at those essential workers who have not yet obtained an associate or bachelor’s degree and want to advance their ...
LANSING — Only 13 school districts have applied for help in paying off school lunch debts of Michigan public school students with just days left before a deadline. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer proposed $1 million funding to pay off student lunch debts in February to end lunch shaming, which is ...
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the final edition of the weekly Grandparents Teach, Too column. After publishing 624 columns, 280,800 words, two books in English and Spanish, and 312 podcasts, the teachers at Grandparents Teach, Too/Learning Through the Seasons are retiring. Iris Katers will ...
MARQUETTE — Mariah Goeks entered Northern Michigan University as a Freshman Fellow, immersing herself in research typically reserved for juniors and seniors at other colleges. Her research alongside physics faculty mentor Rick (P.W.) Mengyan has included several trips to Rutherford ...
MARQUETTE — Northern Michigan University senior Emma Drever and her father Peter Drever (‘93 BS) have both served as presidents of the Associated Students of Northern Michigan University, the student government organization on campus. Emma is president now and Peter was 29 years ago. The ...
Life is like a math equation. In order to gain the most, you have to know how to convert negatives into positives-unknown Families can use everyday activities to help children prepare for math in school and have a life- long awareness, understanding, skill and good attitude toward numbers and ...
We have heard: read, read, read every day. Perhaps families should also say do math, math, math every day. It’s just as fun. You can increase your child’s awareness of numbers by looking around the house to find examples: the kitchen clock, the calendar, a cereal box, a TV dial, a stamp or ...
From Northern Michigan University MARQUETTE — Communications professional Ron Beacom (‘82 BA ) is the new managing editor for Catalyst Midland, an online media/news company that shares stories of people and their businesses or organizations making positive changes across the ...
“Only the pure in heart can make a good soup. — Beethoven” Children evidently can make great soup. They love to cut, chop, and learn to cook soup. When they are talking with adults in the kitchen, the soup is twice as good. Cooking soup is another way to blend children’s learning ...
GWINN — Even during the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s OK to make an “Outrageous Request.” Each year, Gwinn High School teacher Amy Waldo has her students write what’s called an Outrageous Request to companies. In Waldo’s ninth-grade English class last year, sophomore Emily Bandle wrote ...