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This week, the U.S. Department of Education released its 2013-2014 Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) results. The CRDC is an annual survey of all public…

I’ll never forget what I saw after a long night of travel. I was six. I woke up in a posh high-rise apartment, opened the curtains, and saw the hillside…

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Badly. I came across this chart from the Prison Policy Initiative, which ranks all the states' incarceration rates and compares them to other countries…

Over the past few weeks, amongst the holidays and the snowstorms, there has been a surprising amount of news about early education funding in the…

We know, and have known for some time, that not every child in America gets the same shot at a good education. We know that children with darker skin are…

Stories From the Shadows: Life as an undocumented immigrantThursday, August 18, 6:30-8:00Cook Library Center1100 Grandville Ave. SWGrand Rapids,…

If I told you less than 1% of adults in the United States are in jail, it might not seem like a very significant number. But if I told you 1 in every 107…

What will it take to fix Michigan's charter school laws? The rules governing charter schools in Michigan were first put into place a little over two…

Most kids will head back to school this week ready to learn. But some will have to spend a good chunk of time re-learning things they forgot over the…