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Finding sources, gathering tape, listening to Michiganders' of all ages, sitting in tiny chairs in classrooms: the State of Opportunity team is out in the…

Congrats to our first State of Opportunity Back-to-School photo contest winner, Trisha David! We thought this photo of her son, Nikolas, captured on day…

Four-year-olds across Michigan are settling into their pre-school routine, with many programs starting up this week.Some 16,000 of these kids might not…

Updated with audio from the show.Remember writing a paper in school? As you wrote your draft, you'd return to your argument to refresh your memory: "Where…

I'm a little late to the game. I only just heard of Jean Anyon a week ago. She's a leading researcher and education professor, and her study, "Social…

Popular culture has a lot to say about the future and technology.There are dire warnings like in Minority Report and Surrogates. There are ecological…

Last year, I sat down for an interview with libertarian author and scholar Charles Murray. We talked for about 30 minutes. Four minutes of the…

In March of last year, 9th grader Kyle Thompson and his science teacher got into a tug-of-war with a sheet of paper, a “hit list,” that he had written.…

This week Jennifer Guerra will take us along as she spends time in fifth grade in two metro Detroit school districts.The districts have very different…

Gather round the radio, iPod, or what have you and listen in as Jennifer Guerra takes us into fifth grade in two school districts with very different…