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How are you preparing for the new year? Cleaning the house from top to bottom? Clearing out paper and files? Changing smoke alarm batteries? Yes, you…

“Pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a phrase that used to describe trying to do something that was nearly impossible. (Imagine, for a moment,…

There’s a war raging in Lansing over the future of academic testing in Michigan.Last fall, Michigan school kids took what was supposed to be their last…

Michigan ranks number 35 out of 50 states in providing educational, economic, and community involvement opportunities for its citizens, according to the…

Promise Neighborhoods were launched in 2010 by the U.S. government as a way to improve educational opportunities for kids in high-poverty neighborhoods,…

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…