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Only a handful of public schools in Grand Rapids still offer art classes of any kind. To fill the gap, the West Michigan Center for Arts and Technology…

Almost everyone is well-qualified to offer an opinion on how to "fix" education because almost everyone has been to school or is in school now. That…

If you really want to understand childhood brain development you could read all of the books written by folks like Jack Shonkoff, but for those of us who…

We're shaking up our website and bringing you new, themed web posts during the week. The posts highlight the research, resources, and great interviews…

Metalworking, arts and crafts, robotics.All of these activities are part of the emerging makers movement sprouting up all over the world. With its…

Welcome to our new weekly "outtakes" blog posts!When we're out in the field, we get TONS of tape. I'm no percentologist (TM), but I'm guessing I probably…

Over the past six weeks, I have been spending almost all of my time at a single elementary school, inside a single classroom. I've been observing, and…

A person in poverty does not, of course, need something different from their news than a person who is not in poverty. Hypothetically, that is. But today…

If you were a teacher, what would you do you do if a second grader won’t quiet down during story time? What if a third grader wants to go home sick, but…

In our latest documentary, The Education Gap, we talk about the disparities between high-poverty schools and low-poverty schools. I urge you to listen to…