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Partnership with U-M brings language to 3rd-graders
Third-graders in all 21 Ann Arbor elementary schools are saying “hola!” this fall to learning Spanish thanks to a partnership with the University of Michigan.
Month: November 2009
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Building trades program teaches skills, leadership
Now in its 40th year, Ann Arbor’s student building trades program has taught hundreds and given $100,000 in community scholarships.
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Community rallies for building scholarship money
A team of 70 community professionals is working to raise scholarship money for the Ann Arbor Student Building Industry Program, which trains young people for the building trades.
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Young students get a magical lesson
Kathleen Wright and her illustrator husband, Jonathan, tie their love of Ann Arbor’s fairy doors into kindergarten lesson plans.
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Budget information sessions scheduled
Information sessions have been scheduled in January to discuss proposed school district budget cuts and and seek input and ideas from the public.
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‘Communicator’ wins top award, online edition updated
Community High School’s newsmagazine The Communicator wins a Pacemaker award, new online edition launched.
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In Ann Arbor, outdoors becomes classroom for kids
In addition to their traditional classrooms, elementary school students in Ann Arbor get a peek at the outdoors as part of their lessons. The Environmental Education program has been in place since 1959.
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Pioneer AP students get real life writing experience
Pioneer AP literature students have been challenged to write product descriptions that will be used for Zingerman’s mail order business.
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81 honored at Freedom Fund Dinner
Eighty one Ann Arbor high school students were honored Saturday at the Freedom Fund Dinner, sponsored by the Ann Arbor Chapter of the NAACP.
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‘Communicator’ a finalist in national journalism contest
Student journalists at Community High School head for Washington, D.C. this month to accept finalist honors in the Newspaper Pacemaker contest, known as the “Pulitzer Prize of student journalism.” The Ann Arbor school is one of seven in the country to receive the honor. A new Web page is also debuting.