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What are you doing Tuesday night?If you're like me, you'll be checking out the new, one-hour TED Talk special on education, featuring Harlem Children's…

So, is it Teacher Appreciation Day or Teacher Appreciation Week? And is it a national "holiday" or not?I can't say definitively, but it looks like both of…

Infographics are the "Public Service Announcement" of our digital era: informative, easily digested, and memorable. Proponents of early childhood…

We got a lot of response from yesterday's piece about an after-school music program for disadvantaged youth in Grand Rapids.But here's a little secret:…

Yes, we have lots of content here on the State of Opportunity blog: audio from our features; full-length recording and transcripts of topical…

We know not all public schools are the same. Some are amazing, some are fine, and some are failing. The same is true about charter schools. And some…

Michigan Alliance for Families has created a video, "Making the Most of Early On," with useful info on accessing free resources to help little kids with…

Things are settling down at the Anderson’s house in Northwest Detroit. The two high-schoolers are doing homework and talking to their parents. Like at…

I've been thinking a lot about names lately - what they mean, what they project, what kinds of assumptions people make when they hear a name. So I decided…

A couple weeks ago, we did a story about what you get for a $12,000/pupil education. A few weeks before that, we aired an hour-long show called The…