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Classrooms are becoming more diverse, with Black and Latino students filling up more seats than ever before. But across the country, for the most part,…

Yesterday the Brookings Institution released some new data about the rise in suburban poverty. Across the nation there are now more people living in…

Update: The state House has passed the proposed School Aid budget, including the $65 million increase for early education. The annual legislative brawl…

A few weeks ago I took the State of Opportunity storytelling booth to J.W. Sexton High School in Lansing. The school is a sand-colored art deco…

When I think of kids in poverty, my mind more often than not conjures up an image of a child in some kind of urban setting. And our stories at State of…

Happy summer! Most school districts around the state are officially dunzo with the school year as of the end of the day today.It's doubtless many kids…

Researchers Thomas A. DiPrete and Claudia Buchman write in the Los Angeles Times about another phenomenon for the gap watch files.According to Buchman and…

This is State of Opportunity's first piece on technology and opportunity, an issue I'll be exploring over the next couple of months as one of State of…

The message from the U.S. Supreme Court's decision yesterday in Fisher v. University of Texas is pretty clear. Race-based affirmative action is still…

The ability to control technology is certainly a marketable skill in this economy. It’s also a literacy, making kids more conscious consumers of the world…