Hundreds of students, parents and neighbors of Dicken Elementary School gathered Tuesday night to appreciate art and nature for the annual Dicken Woods Winter Walk. Hosted by the Friends of Dicken Woods, the event featured a 15-minute walk through wooded trails illuminated by more than 300 candlelit lanterns made by ...
Ann Arbor elementary school Principal Mike Madison will not be disciplined for starting a Lunch Bunch study group open only to black students, despite repeated findings that the group broke district policy and state law. Those were among the results of the district's investigation into the group, which sparked controversy ...
Dicken Elementary School hosted its annual Super Science Day in conjunction with the Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum in late May, according to an article by the AAPSNews Service. The visit was part of a museum program that travels around the state to teach students about biology, ecology, physics, chemistry and ...
Low-income students in Washtenaw County continue to struggle, graduating less often then their peers and trailing them in most other measurements of achievement. Graduation rates for the class of 2009 show Washtenaw County students who are classified as low income had a graduation rate of 57.7 percent. That’s the lowest ...