Education features from the Traverse City Record-Eagle, northern Michigan's daily newspaper.
Students learn with Legos
Problem: How do you get young people as excited about science, technology, engineering and math as they are about sports? Solution: Give them Legos -- plus gears, motors, sensors and software.....more>>
Q: Our daughter will be 20 this month, lives at home and attends a community college full time. She has her own room. She has her boyfriend over from time to time and when they are in her room, they keep the door open and just sit on the bed and watch TV. One day my wife came home and found them under the covers watching a movie.
The sixth-grade class in Boyne City traditionally makes a three-day trip to Camp Daggett Adventure Center near Petoskey, but the trip was in jeopardy this year -- until a local a businessman came to the rescue.
The following have been named Students of the Month by the Traverse City Kiwanis Club: Jennifer Shanahan of Chicago, a senior at Interlochen Arts Academy; Matthew Park of Fife Lake, a senior at Forest Area Schools; Andrew Bahle of Suttons Bay, a senior at Interlochen Arts Academy.
Bleachers full of cheering students watched attentively as teachers and classmates performed skits at Cherryland Middle School in Elk Rapids. The assembly presented a new approach to learning.
Q: My son goes from one thing to another without cleaning up after himself. I frequently have to remind him to clean up something, throw something away, put something away, turn something off or close something. I'm tired of nagging. How can I help him change and reduce my frustration?