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Parents: you’ll find a note soon in your child’s backpack. Or maybe you’ll get a phone call. A gentle reminder from your child’s teacher that it’s time…
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Brian Whiston is the new guy in town at the Michigan Department of Education, and it looks like he's got poverty on the brain. Whiston and the state Board…
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Last October, the Harvard Business Review published an essay on Hacking Tech's Diversity Problem.In the piece, Joan C. Williams of the University of…
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America is becoming less equal.That much is now widely acknowledged.But what can be done to improve things for the next generation?We’ve been doing this…
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Teaching is a political act. That's what Grand Valley State University professor Amy Masko believes. "What we choose to talk about in schools and what we…
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Jennifer Guerra and Dustin Dwyer are both working on stories about low income kids and college. In the meantime, check out this new multi-media piece from…
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Browsing the comments on Facebook in response to Dustin Dwyer’s piece on race makes it clear we are all over the map on how we talk about race. Some tread…
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I crossed and uncrossed my legs for the tenth time in a minute. I bounced my foot. I even stood at the back of the room. I was fidgety, foggy brained,…
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A little before 9 a.m. Monday, it’s time to clean up the morning work in the KinderCamp classroom at MLK Leadership Academy in Grand Rapids.The free,…
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The death of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown and the resulting chaos in Ferguson, Missouri is an extreme example of the long tail of a racial power…