MARQUETTE — The Winter Olympics in Beijing was nearing the end on Saturday, but another Olympics was just getting started. Northern Michigan University on Saturday hosted the Region I Science Olympiad, which brought in middle and high school students from across the Upper Peninsula to ...
LANSING — Student mental health has become a top worry for Michigan educators, according to a new statewide survey of 2,600 educators. The Michigan Education Association survey found that 88% said they were very concerned about student behavioral problems and mental health. That was the second-ranked concern among educators, with staffing shortages taking the top spot. Pay and benefits came in third. The MEA is the state’s largest union of teachers and other school staff. “This is the first time I haven’t seen educator pay and benefits as top-ranking,” said Doug ...
MARQUETTE — Local youths have expressed their patriotism in an impressive way. Liliana Saunders, an eighth-grade student at Negaunee Middle School, and Gabriel Grondz, a freshman at Westwood High School, have been honored for essays in the recent Patriots Pen and Veterans of Foreign Wars ...
LANSING — School staff shortages are on the rise, according to Wendy Zdeb, the executive director of the Michigan Association of Secondary School Principals. “When I graduated from college in the early ‘90s, there were hours that you’d wait in line at teacher job fairs, just hoping someone would look at your resume,” said Zdeb. “Nowadays, I have colleagues at these events who have maybe one or two people stopping by the table,” Zdeb said. According to the December 2021 Michigan Teacher Shortage Study by Education Policy Innovation Collaboration, the number of ...
MARQUETTE — It’s winter and there’s still a pandemic. Fortunately, there’s a way for youngsters to bring a little color into their lives and learn at the same time. The Peter White Public Library is holding its second annual Flamingos in the Snow program for youths up to age 14. The ...
BUCHAREST, Romania — Maksim Goldenshteyn recounts a story his grandmother once told him about how, as a 4-year-old child, she snuck out of a Jewish ghetto during World War II to retrieve her favorite dolls that had been left behind when her family was forcibly evicted from their home in occupied Soviet Ukraine. “She knew, even at that age, that because she had lighter hair and blue eyes, she could pass for a local Ukrainian girl,” said Goldenshteyn. “She put on a kerchief and slipped out of the ghetto.” It’s one of the stories that Seattle native Goldenshteyn tells in his ...
