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We're starting to look into why certain kids are getting suspended from school more often than others, namely African-Americans, Latinos, students with…

Update: 2:06 p.m.: My colleague Dustin Dwyer was surfing the web today and came across this incredibly moving song about a young father and his son who…

Chana Joffe-Walt's recent piece on This American Life about how disability payments are the new welfare has a lot of people pretty mad. Media Matters put…

To all the Keishas, from one popular girls' name to another, I feel your pain (Kimberly is #20 in the top names over the last 100 years). We sometimes…

Michigan has a lot to be proud of - top universities, the Great Lakes, a (now) thriving car industry. Having some of the most racially segregated schools…

We love research. Studies grounded in empirical research drive a lot of what we do and who we talk to for State of Opportunity reporting. Yet, if we take…

We've already acknowledged the proliferation of different days and weeks, whether by official proclamation or organizational mandate, declared for raising…

This post has been updated to reflect new developments: Tuesday, 2:07 p.m.According to Michigan Public Radio Network's Rick Pluta, the state may in fact…

Every once and a while, our State of Opportunity team receives a story pitch from someone in the community who's trying to make a difference in the lives…

I've been spending a lot of time recently trying to figure out why girls perform better than boys on almost every measure of academic achievement. Looking…