Back to School

Some unfortunate news for Michigan. WalletHub has ranked Michigan as the #1 state in the country with the biggest bullying problem. With kids on their way back to school WalletHub looked at the prevalence and prevention of bullying in schools across the country...

With back to school being right around the corner your kids have to start getting used to going to bed at a decent time (again). Do you have a bedtime for your kid(s)? Have you found that the time you're putting them to bed works? It can be difficult to figure out because you don't want them to go to bed too early and they wake up in the middle of the night and you also don't want them to go to be

So much for that secret, big mouth! What he found was pretty cool though.

Summer vacation and the three-day Labor Day weekend are over as students head back to school across Michigan today. Use the hashtags #btswmi or #btswestmi on Twitter or Instagram with your back-to-school pictures from greater Grand Rapids and West Michigan. Let's show our pride pictorially about our students, children and kids.

Summer vacation and the three-day Labor Day weekend are over as students head back to school across Michigan on Tuesday. Share your pride about your students headed back to school on their first day of the 2014-2015 school year. Use the hashtags #btswmi or #btswestmi on Twitter or Instagram, and see those photos online withChannel 95.7. We'll post those photos starting at 6 a.m. Tuesday.

Doctors are urging schools to let students sleep in. Those are words I would have LOVED to have heard when I was 16; now they irritate me. So, what is this all about?

The mother of one of the 26 victims of 2012's Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre has written a powerful letter to the teachers of America. Nebla Marquez-Greene had two children attending Sandy Hook Elementary that day. Her daughter, 6-year-old Ana Grace, was killed in the Connecticut massacre, and her son was uninjured in the attack. Her letter, which was posted on the Education Week website

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You could win a $500 back-to-school shopping spree for your kid from Meijer!

The mother of one of the 26 victims of last December's Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre in Newtown, Conn., has written a powerful letter to the teachers of America. Nebla Marquez-Greene had two children attending Sandy Hook Elementary on that day: Dec. 13, 2012. Her daughter, 6-year-old Ana Grace, was killed, but her son was uninjured. Twenty children and six adults died in the shootings by a

The kids are back at school bringing with them lots of supplies:  pencils, folders, calculators, backpacks, shoes, clothes, etc.  Sales and coupons are nice, but it only helps so much at back to school time. Before the next credit card statement arrives take our anonymous poll… How much did you spend on back to school shopping?

JCPenney is offering free haircuts to kids for the whole month of August to help out during the back-to-school season. Kids kindergarten through sixth-grade are eligible for the free haircut at any JCPenney Hair Salon. You don't need a coupon or anything, parents should just mention the free haircut when scheduling the appointment.