Articles tagged:Dicken Elementary School

Posted: Thu Feb 17 9 a.m. by Andrew Turner Intern
Art in nature: Community celebrates Dicken woods with annual winter walk

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 ...

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Posted: Tue Aug 17 6:03 a.m. by David Jesse
Dicken Principal Mike Madison will not be disciplined for black-only field trip, report indicates

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 ...

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Posted: Tue Jul 20 10:50 a.m. by Lizzy Alfs Business Reporter
Vegetable garden at Dicken Elementary School vandalized on multiple occasions

Uprooted potato plants, torn down wire fences and signs marking students' gardening efforts were scattered across Dicken Elementary School's Project Grow vegetable garden after it was vandalized earlier this month.

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Posted: Mon Jun 7 4:16 p.m. by Stefanie Murray Real-time Engagement Officer

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 ...

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Posted: Sun May 9 6:03 a.m. by David Jesse
Washtenaw County's low-income students have lower graduation rates than any other subgroup

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 ...

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Posted: Thu May 6 4:22 p.m. by David Jesse
Black-only field trip that sparked controversy in Ann Arbor receives national media attention

Marian Wallace is upset. So steamed, in fact, she had to take a walk to calm down after reading about Ann Arbor Dicken Elementary School’s African-American Lunch Bunch. “If this was a group of white students only going somewhere, everybody would be up in arms,” she said. “It’s not right. ...

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