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For many kids, mental health care in Michigan means psychotropic drugs
Dr. April Ping is a pediatrician in Livingston county. She's known by foster parents in her area as somebody who understands the complications the foster…
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Here are a few ideas on how to talk to kids about race, police, and protests
Early Tuesday, 37-year-old Alton Sterling was shot and killed by police outside the Triple S Food Mart in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.Just a day later, a…
Muskegon Heights schools were in trouble. Then the district made history. Twice.
There are a lot of school districts in trouble in Michigan. Forty-five districts are in a deficit. Five districts are currently subject to state oversight…
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The day Michigan killed public schools (and then created the system we have today)
If you’re like me and you know just a little bit about the history of education in Michigan, you might already know that a lot of what we see in our…
The decline of Detroit's neighborhood schools
Neighborhoods matter. A big part of the reason why is that good neighborhoods usually have better schools. But across the country, the number of kids…
The value of early education [edited transcript + audio]
Transcript: STATE OF OPPORTUNITY: documentary[Dustin Dwyer:] Children’s brains do not come preprogrammed.[Jack Shonkoff:] Literally, our environment…
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Infowire: If you live in Flint, here's what you need to know about the water crisis
Infowire fills the information gap and meets the news needs of families struggling to make ends meet. Get all Infowire alerts by texting INFOWIRE to…
Here's what we know (and what we don't know) about the use of force by police in America
Before Mike Brown, before Kajieme Powell. Before Eric Garner. Before John Crawford. Before Ezell Ford. Before Sean Bell. Before Ramarley Graham. Before…
How to improve community-police relations? Here are two approaches.
Trust between police and the black community has taken a major hit after the spate of recent police shootings of black men around the country. So this…
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A documentary on race, neighborhoods, schools, and kids in Michigan [transcript + audio]
TranscriptSTATE OF OPPORTUNITY: RACE documentaryJENNIFER GUERRA: It’s time to have the talk. I know, it’s not gonna be easy. Might get a little…
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