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Education

Welcome aboard

HANCOCK – The Hancock School District is ready for the 2025-2026 school year and welcomes back students with new faces and appearances. Mollie Threwartha is the new middle school/high school principal. She was appointed to the position at a special meeting of the Hancock School Board on July ...

The search continues

LAKE LINDEN – As local school districts in the Copper Country Intermediate School District get ready to greet returning students next week, the Lake Linden-Hubbell School District is the midst of a search for the new superintendent. Former Superintendent and Middle/High School Principal ...

Study smarter, not harder

It would be convenient if every student had a photographic memory, making it a snap to recall pages of text or concepts in great detail. Photographic memory is not real, but a very small portion of the population, around 2 to 10 percent of children, has something called an eidetic memory, which ...

A taste of what’s next

HOUGHTON — Right now thousands of students are preparing to go to high school or have already started college. But a significant number of young people will be doing both. Many high school juniors and seniors will also be matriculating in a community college or even a world-class university, ...

Bay College launches new programs

ESCANABA & IRON MOUNTAIN, MI – Bay College unveiled a new cohort-based initiative to ease the transition into college for first-time Dual Enrollment (DE) and Early College (EC) students. Launching Fall 2025, the program features specially designed online course sections that provide extra ...

MiLeap Announces National Case Study

LANSING – The Michigan Department of Lifelong Education, Advancement, and Potential (MiLEAP) announced Friday the publication of a national case study by Results for America recognizing the MI Tri-Share Child Care program as an innovative, effective solution for expanding access to affordable ...