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I don't know about you, but I feel like any gap I had in my knowledge about disparities and inequity between schools was closed by Jennifer Guerra's…

TRANSCRIPT:Break out your number two pencils and a notebook, because we are headed back to grade school. From Michigan Radio, this is State of…

Everything from Lady Poverty to Welfare QueensClose your eyes and conjure up an image of the ‘poor.’ Do the faces you imagine inspire sympathy or…

When it comes to making sure kids are at grade level, the U.S. isn't doing so hot. Just a little over a third (36%) of 8-year olds are cognitively on…

For a few months now, I've been working on a series about the end of the neighborhood school as most people know it in Detroit . The stories will air next…

There are almost as many charter schools in Detroit as schools run by the Detroit Public Schools. There are 86 DPS schools and 85 charters, a difference…

Update July 10, 11:58 a.m.Paula Wethington of Monroe on a Budget sent us, via the Public Insight Network, a few resources her readership has found most…

As part of State of Opportunity, we are featuring stories on what it is like to grow up or raise kids in Michigan while struggling to pay the bills. There…

I don’t know you. I don’t know what your life is like. But if there is an average you, that is, an average NPR listener, I can guess that odds are, you…

What would it take so that all kids in Michigan have the chance to reach their full potential?To help us find some answers, we're doing things a little…